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  1. Moments for nothing
    Samuel Beckett and the end times
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Writing in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the existential angst of the postwar era, Samuel Beckett, like few other authors spoke to the cultural imagination and anxieties of living in the vortex of catastrophes. For Gabriele Schwab, his work... more

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    "Writing in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the existential angst of the postwar era, Samuel Beckett, like few other authors spoke to the cultural imagination and anxieties of living in the vortex of catastrophes. For Gabriele Schwab, his work has taken on new meaning as we are living in a period defined by both paralyzing stasis and turbulence. Moreover, as we approach an era that will increasingly be shaped by climate change and pandemics, Beckett's particular sense of end times and his vision of human adaptability offers a critical lens to understand our times and also, perhaps, provides solace. In Samuel Beckett's Poetics of the End Times, Gabriele Schwab draws on her decades-long engagement with Beckett. She describes how Beckett's ideas defined her work as a critic and theorist and also provided a sanctuary during difficult times in her personal life. She examines Beckett's writings from the more famous works including Happy Days and End Game to lesser-known works such as Breath his 35-second play, which Schwab reads anew in light of our experience with COVID-19 as a meditation on living and grounding oneself as we confront loneliness, vulnerability, and perpetual anxiety"--

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780231211604; 9780231211611
    Subjects: End of the world in literature; Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
    Scope: xi, 273 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Late Romanticism and the end of politics
    Byron, Mary Shelley, and the last men
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again

     

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    ISBN: 9781009289160
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    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 140
    Subjects: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Romanticism / Great Britain; End of the world in literature; Politics in literature; Authors, English / 19th century / Political and social views; Politics and literature / Great Britain / History / 19th century
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 Seiten)
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  3. Late Romanticism and the end of politics
    Byron, Mary Shelley, and the last men
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ;

    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again.

     

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    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 140
    Subjects: English literature; Romanticism; End of the world in literature; Politics in literature; Authors, English; Politics and literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 pages)
  4. Late Romanticism and the end of politics
    Byron, Mary Shelley, and the last men
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again

     

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  5. Staging the end of the world
    theatre in a time of climate crisis
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Methuen Drama, London

    "This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. It examines a wide range of plays, from Euripides and Bhasa, to medieval mystery cycles, through Shakespeare, Pushkin, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Samuel... more

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    "This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. It examines a wide range of plays, from Euripides and Bhasa, to medieval mystery cycles, through Shakespeare, Pushkin, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, Tony Kushner's Slavs!, and Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Through analyzing these alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis"--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781350309913; 9781350309951
    Subjects: Drama; End of the world in literature; Theater; Human ecology in literature
    Scope: viii, 264 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  6. Staging the End of the World
    Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis
    Published: 2023; ©2023
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781350309937
    Subjects: Drama-History and criticism; End of the world in literature; Theater-History; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (281 pages)
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  7. Late Romanticism and the end of politics
    Byron, Mary Shelley and the Last Men
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    "In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again. John Owen Havard is Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830 (2019). His articles and essays on the Byron circle, party politics, political emotion, and the future of democracy have appeared in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Byron Journal, The New Rambler and Public Books"--

     

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    ISBN: 9781009289207
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    RVK Categories: HL 1131 ; HL 2265 ; HL 4345
    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 140
    Subjects: English literature; Romanticism; End of the world in literature; Politics in literature; Authors, English; Politics and literature; Literary criticism
    Scope: ix, 234 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-229

  8. Moments for Nothing
    Samuel Beckett and the End Times
    Published: [2023]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they... more

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    Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that seem at once to confront finitude and the infinite, up to the limits of existence.Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears. Interweaving critical analysis with personal reflections, she shows how Beckett’s writing provides unexpected resources for making sense of personal and planetary catastrophes. Moments for Nothing examines the ways Beckett’s works have taken on new meaning in an era of crises—climate change, environmental devastation, and the COVID-19 pandemic—that are defined by both paralyzing stasis and pervasive uncertainty. They also offer a bracing depiction of aging and the end of life, exploring loneliness, vulnerability, and decay. Beckett’s particular vision of the apocalypse and his sense of persistence, Schwab argues, help us understand our times and even, perhaps, provide sanctuary and solace.Moments for Nothing features insightful close readings of iconic works such as Endgame, Happy Days, and the trilogy, as well as lesser-known writings including the thirty-five-second play Breath, which Schwab reconsiders in light of the pandemic

     

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    ISBN: 9780231558990
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    Subjects: End of the world in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  9. Late Romanticism and the end of politics
    Byron, Mary Shelley, and the last men
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781009289160
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    RVK Categories: HL 1131 ; HL 2265 ; HL 4345
    Series: Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 140
    Subjects: English literature; Romanticism; End of the world in literature; Politics in literature; Authors, English; Politics and literature; Literary criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-229

  10. Moments for nothing
    Samuel Beckett and the end times
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Writing in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the existential angst of the postwar era, Samuel Beckett, like few other authors spoke to the cultural imagination and anxieties of living in the vortex of catastrophes. For Gabriele Schwab, his work... more

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    "Writing in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and the existential angst of the postwar era, Samuel Beckett, like few other authors spoke to the cultural imagination and anxieties of living in the vortex of catastrophes. For Gabriele Schwab, his work has taken on new meaning as we are living in a period defined by both paralyzing stasis and turbulence. Moreover, as we approach an era that will increasingly be shaped by climate change and pandemics, Beckett's particular sense of end times and his vision of human adaptability offers a critical lens to understand our times and also, perhaps, provides solace. In Samuel Beckett's Poetics of the End Times, Gabriele Schwab draws on her decades-long engagement with Beckett. She describes how Beckett's ideas defined her work as a critic and theorist and also provided a sanctuary during difficult times in her personal life. She examines Beckett's writings from the more famous works including Happy Days and End Game to lesser-known works such as Breath his 35-second play, which Schwab reads anew in light of our experience with COVID-19 as a meditation on living and grounding oneself as we confront loneliness, vulnerability, and perpetual anxiety"--

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780231211604; 9780231211611
    Subjects: End of the world in literature; Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
    Scope: xi, 273 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  11. Late Romanticism and the end of politics
    Byron, Mary Shelley, and the last men
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781009289160
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    RVK Categories: HL 1131 ; HL 2265 ; HL 4345
    Series: Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 140
    Subjects: English literature; Romanticism; End of the world in literature; Politics in literature; Authors, English; Politics and literature; Literary criticism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-229

  12. Late Romanticism and the end of politics :
    Byron, Mary Shelley, and the last men /
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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen... more

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    In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again

     

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