This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on

This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett's writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.

This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential Europe

<h4>Explores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</h4><ul

This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.