This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre. INDICE: Introduction Traumatized Masculinity and Beckett's Return The Masculine Protest: Murphy and Watt Return in the Postwar Fiction Embodying Lost Masculinity in Waiting for Godot and Endgame Rewinding Krapp's Last Tape: The Return of Anglo-Irish Masculinity The Not I of Gender Identity in the Women-Centered Plays 'The churn of stale words in the heart again': Beckett's Final Return Conclusion: Masculine Dead Masculine
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61528-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés