Böcker av Conor Carville

Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett's career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the most important writer of the twentieth century.

Sometimes lyric, sometimes violent, Conor Carville's second collection of poetry teems with the martyrdoms, both everyday and epic, that punctuate our lives. Many of the poems reassert the capacity of song to grasp the shape of a life, a community, or a world, in the shadow of its vast disorder.

Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing. -- .