Stages of the Clown: Perspectives on Modern Fiction from Dostoyevsky to Beckett

by Harry Thornton Moore, Richard Pearce, Associate Professor Richard Pearce

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In this illuminating study of the grotesque and black comedy, Mr. Pearce traces the classic clown tradition in the works of Beckett, Flannery O'Connor, Kafka, Faulkner, William Burroughs, Nabokov, G nter Grass, and other modern writers. The "stages" of the title refer to the historical development and concept of the clown from classical to modern literature. The author's radical perspective on the clown as the hero in a world of the absurd is especially...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080930449X

ISBN13:9780809304493

Release Date:October 1970

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.11 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"

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