Literary Cynics

Arthur Rose

earliest edition we have, 2017 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017

"Literary Cynics reconsiders the meaqnings of words like cynicism and cosmopolitanism for Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, testing the limits of their merely cynical cosmopolitanism. Arthur Rose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 200...

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Literary Cynics paperback · 2018 · Bloomsbury Academic · 258 pages · 9781350090019
Literary Cynics edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781474258661
Literary Cynics hardcover · 2017 · Bloomsbury Academic · 256 pages · 9781474258647
Literary Cynics edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781474258678

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