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BL
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738307
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b558215
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| Main Entry
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Jennifer M. Jeffers.
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| Title & Author
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Beckett's masculinity\ Jennifer M. Jeffers.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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| Series Statement
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New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century
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| Page. NO
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(xii, 203 p.).
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| ISBN
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0230101461
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: 9780230101463
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| Contents
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Traumatized masculinity and Beckett's return --;The masculine protest : Murphy and Watt --;Return in the postwar fiction --;Embodying lost masculinity in Waiting for Godot and Endgame --;Rewinding Krapp's last tape : the return of Anglo-Irish masculinity --;The Not I of gender identity in the women-centered plays --;"The churn of stale words in the heart again" : Beckett's final return.
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| Abstract
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This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Literature and society -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
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Masculinity in literature.
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| LC Classification
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PR6003.E282J466 2009
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| Added Entry
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Jennifer M Jeffers
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Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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