Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics

Tim Lawrence is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York, UK. He has articles and reviews published in outlets including the Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui. His research interests lie in the European avant-garde, phenomenology, and twentieth-century visual culture.

• 1. Representation and Resistance: Beckett as Reader and Critic.- 2. Beckett’s Aesthetic of Vision: Figuration and Surrealist Influence.- 3. Transitions and Abstractions: Periodical Culture and Beckett’s Revisions of the Visual.- 4. “This running against the walls of our cage”: Beckett at the Boundary.

“It will be of valuable use to Beckettian scholars and students. It will also be of interest to students and researchers in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy. … this book is well worth reading for the insight it gives into the context of Beckett’s essays and their ongoing discussion of issues pertaining to vision and aesthetics.” (Pascale Sardin, Cercles, cercles.com, July 15, 2019)