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Beckett's masculinity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeffers, Jennifer M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Psychology.
Masculinity in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Literature and society > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.