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| adam_text | Contents
Preface page
Abbreviations
PART I Introductory
1
The philosophical absurd
Jokes, humour, nonsense and the absurd
The socio-linguistic absurd
2
From the ancients
Madness: mysteries to Shakespeare
Nonsense, Swift and Sterne
Romantic grotesque to higher realism and pre-Surrealist
nonsense
PARTII
3
Introductory pointers
Post-Impressionists in England
Avant-garde theory and practice
Disparate European prose: Western and Eastern
proto-absurdism
4
Fernando Pessoa and the pessimistic absurd
Antonin
Camus and the Dostoevsky connection
viii Contents
5
Ionesco
Pinter and others: the English-language scene
The East European scene
(Soviet) Russia: the OBERIU
(Cold-War) Poland and Czechoslovakia
PART III Special authors
6
A Kharms sketch
The Kharmsian canon
A poetics of extremism
Logic of the black miniature
Pursuing the red-haired man
Kharmsian others?
7
Kafka and the other(s)
Kafka in the other(s)
Falling and cawing in the labyrinth
8
In the wake of Kafka?
The prose
The drama
Further shades of the absurd
9
The hydra-headed man
At Swim-Two-Birds: juvenile scrivenry as metafictional absurd?
The Third Policeman: questions, mysteries, answers
PART IV In conclusion
10
The prosaic absurd
Beyond the Theatre of the Absurd ?
Popular culture
That miscellaneous and ubiquitous absurd
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
The absurd in literature is the first book to offer a comprehensive
account of the absurd in prose fiction. As well as providing a sound
basis for courses on absurdist literature (whether in fiction or in
drama), it offers a broadly based philosophical background. Sections
covering theoretical approaches and an overview of tho historical
literary antecedents to the modern absurd introduce the largely
twentieth-century core chapters.
As well as discussing a variety of literary movements (from Surrealism
to the Russian OBERIU), this book offers detailed case studies of four
prominent exponents of the absurd
as well as Daniil Kharms and Flann O Brien. There is additional wide
discussion of a galaxy of other English-language and European
contributors to the phenomenon of the absurd.
The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable
range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and
Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American)
as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde
and the history of ideas (humour theory included). It should also have a
wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.
This book in many ways parallels Neil Cornwell s own The Literary
Fantastic (1990; reprinted
literary absurd, it has to be on the shelves alongside Martin Esslin s
eminent study of The Theatre of the Absurd.
Neil Comwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the
University of Bristol
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Contents
Preface page
Abbreviations
PART I Introductory
1
The philosophical absurd
Jokes, humour, nonsense and the absurd
The socio-linguistic absurd
2
From the ancients
Madness: mysteries to Shakespeare
Nonsense, Swift and Sterne
Romantic grotesque to 'higher' realism and pre-Surrealist
nonsense
PARTII
3
Introductory pointers
'Post-Impressionists' in England
Avant-garde theory and practice
Disparate European prose: Western and Eastern
proto-absurdism
4
Fernando Pessoa and the 'pessimistic absurd'
Antonin
Camus and the Dostoevsky connection
viii Contents
5
Ionesco
Pinter and others: the English-language scene
The East European scene
(Soviet) Russia: the OBERIU
(Cold-War) Poland and Czechoslovakia
PART III Special authors
6
A Kharms sketch
The Kharmsian canon
A poetics of extremism
Logic of the black miniature
Pursuing the red-haired man
Kharmsian others?
7
Kafka and the other(s)
Kafka in the other(s)
Falling and cawing in the labyrinth
8
In the wake of Kafka?
The prose
The drama
Further shades of the absurd
9
The hydra-headed man
At Swim-Two-Birds: juvenile scrivenry as metafictional absurd?
The Third Policeman: questions, mysteries, answers
PART IV In conclusion
10
The prosaic absurd
Beyond the 'Theatre of the Absurd'?
Popular culture
That miscellaneous and ubiquitous absurd
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
The absurd in literature is the first book to offer a comprehensive
account of the absurd in prose fiction. As well as providing a sound
basis for courses on absurdist literature (whether in fiction or in
drama), it offers a broadly based philosophical background. Sections
covering theoretical approaches and an overview of tho historical
literary antecedents to the 'modern' absurd introduce the largely
twentieth-century core chapters.
As well as discussing a variety of literary movements (from Surrealism
to the Russian OBERIU), this book offers detailed case studies of four
prominent exponents of the absurd
as well as Daniil Kharms and Flann O'Brien. There is additional wide
discussion of a galaxy of other English-language and European
contributors to the phenomenon of the absurd.
The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable
range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and
Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American)
as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde
and the history of ideas (humour theory included). It should also have a
wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.
This book in many ways parallels Neil Cornwell's own The Literary
Fantastic (1990; reprinted
literary absurd, it has to be on the shelves alongside Martin Esslin's
eminent study of The Theatre of the Absurd.
Neil Comwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the
University of Bristol |
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