This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on

This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett's writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.

This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential Europe

John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.