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Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel
Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel, Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language,, Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel
  • Written by author David Weisberg
  • Published by State University of New York Press, September 2000
  • Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language,
  • Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language,
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beckett's Choice1
Ch. IEntering the Literary Field10
Joyce and Proust: Involuntary Epics10
"It Is Not": Juxtaposition and Ethical Judgment in "Dante and the Lobster"17
Versions of Modernism24
Ch. IIContact with the Outside World28
Contesting "Social Reality"28
"Contact with Outer Reality" in Murphy32
Watt: Novel of Resistance or Accident of War?41
Ch. IIIRewriting Modernism in the Nouvelles53
Primitivism in the Tone of Polite Conversation53
Writing and Begging in "The End"56
From the Metropolis to the "Text"64
Author or Writing Subject? Beckett and Postmodern Fiction73
Ch. IVMolloy (one): Molloy, the Subject83
Molloy's Class Consciousness83
The Production of the Story88
Molloy and the Police91
Subjectivity as a Modernist Universal97
Ch. VMolloy (two): Moran, and Agent102
The Agent as Storyteller102
"Strong Enough at Last to Act No More"107
The Terms of the Story: Agent, Voice, Purpose110
Structure without Agents: Beckett and the Postwar Critique of Narrative116
Ch. VIA Contest of Nightmares: The Unnamable and 1984124
"Incomprehensible Uneasiness" in the Void124
The Flaneur in a Jar131
The Reinvention of the New and the Aesthetic of Failure137
Nightmare of Commitment: Orwell's "Inside the Whale" and 1984149
Epilogue: Engagement, Ecriture, Autonomy: The Displacement of Politics in Postwar Critical Theory161
Notes169
Works Cited185
Index191


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