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03362aam a2200421 i 4500 001 5B7147762E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230512s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023008232 020 $a 0231211619 020 $a 9780231211611 020 $a 0231211600 020 $a 9780231211604 035 $a (OCoLC)1387568217 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d MNN $d CDS $d GSU $d CQC $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6003.E282 $b Z82 2023 082 00 $a 848/.91409 $2 23/eng/20230627 100 1 $a Schwab, Gabriele, $e author. 245 10 $a Moments for nothing : $b Samuel Beckett and the end times / $c Gabriele Schwab. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xi, 273 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-257) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Moments for nothing: Endgame and its discontents -- The transitional space between life and death: "The Calmative," Molloy, and Malone Dies -- End times of subjectivity: The Unnameable -- "Laughing wildly inmidst severest woe": Happy Days and the last humans -- Cosmographical meditations on the in/human: The Lost Ones -- Coda: Breath and the vicissitudes of animation. 600 10 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00035621 650 0 $a End of the world in literature. 650 7 $a End of the world in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00909643 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version : $a Schwab, Gabriele. $t Moments for Nothing $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] $z 9780231558990 $w (DLC) 2023008233 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012434.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B7147762E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search