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"Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Works "places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett's ouevre. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation and a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex-- the solitary, the homoerotic, and the geriatric--which challenge established notions of propriety and identity politics. Sex informs Beckett's search for a means of aesthetic creation not infected by aspects of natural procreation, and the suffering and death which it entails, in the hope that the tyranny of Schopenhauer's will-to-live might be overcome. Paul Stewart ably and amply shows that sex, so long overlooked, is an integral, and troubling, facet of Beckett's art.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work
• Author: Paul Stewart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 229
• EAN: 9780230108813
• ISBN: 0230108814
• ID: 04551613
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 418 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 138 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. August 2011

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