The city and the city. Posthumous fantasies in the short narrative of Samuel Beckett and China Miéville
Since the turn of the millenium, critical approaches to the work of Samuel Beckett –a leading figure of literary modernism– in the light of cultural materials regarded as marginal with respect to ‘serious’ literature have shown a significant expansion. Among other critical interventions, some possib...
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Since the turn of the millenium, critical approaches to the work of Samuel Beckett –a leading figure of literary modernism– in the light of cultural materials regarded as marginal with respect to ‘serious’ literature have shown a significant expansion. Among other critical interventions, some possible connections have been made between Beckett’s writings and certain branches of speculative fiction, thus challenging a regime of hierarchies and differences a certain (post)modernist mythology has posited in terms of a ‘Great Divide’ (Huyssen) between high art and mass culture. From the opposite side of the divide, the name of China Miéville –an author commonly related to ‘New Weird’ fiction– has been going through a process of canonisation that highlights some aspects of his work, while strategically handling others, for the sake of his recognition as a ‘literary’ writer. These crossings are exampled by the inclusion of both Beckett and Miéville in a canon of slipstream writings, as American author Bruce Sterling has named an ‘emergent genre’ capable of expressing the strangeness of today’s experience. The subgenre known as ‘posthumous fantasy’ will let us articulate the close reading of the materials with some of the great totalizing fictions that have shaped the ‘theoretical’ debate in the UK and America since the 1980s. By means of this ‘middlebrow mediation’ (a term whose Modernist ancestry dates back to figures such as Virginia Woolf, Dwight Macdonald, and Clement Greenberg), we intend to delve into the premises and the methodological, hermeneutical and conceptual effects the comparative analysis of the texts will help us visualize. By focusing on the urban aesthetics developed by the two authors, this paper not only assesses the potential of some recent perspectives on Beckett, but also the limitations of a supposedly ‘non-canonising’ approach to the work of the great Irish author. |
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I28-R145-7980_oai2025-11-17 Goldzycher, Alejandro 2019-04-01 Since the turn of the millenium, critical approaches to the work of Samuel Beckett –a leading figure of literary modernism– in the light of cultural materials regarded as marginal with respect to ‘serious’ literature have shown a significant expansion. Among other critical interventions, some possible connections have been made between Beckett’s writings and certain branches of speculative fiction, thus challenging a regime of hierarchies and differences a certain (post)modernist mythology has posited in terms of a ‘Great Divide’ (Huyssen) between high art and mass culture. From the opposite side of the divide, the name of China Miéville –an author commonly related to ‘New Weird’ fiction– has been going through a process of canonisation that highlights some aspects of his work, while strategically handling others, for the sake of his recognition as a ‘literary’ writer. These crossings are exampled by the inclusion of both Beckett and Miéville in a canon of slipstream writings, as American author Bruce Sterling has named an ‘emergent genre’ capable of expressing the strangeness of today’s experience. The subgenre known as ‘posthumous fantasy’ will let us articulate the close reading of the materials with some of the great totalizing fictions that have shaped the ‘theoretical’ debate in the UK and America since the 1980s. By means of this ‘middlebrow mediation’ (a term whose Modernist ancestry dates back to figures such as Virginia Woolf, Dwight Macdonald, and Clement Greenberg), we intend to delve into the premises and the methodological, hermeneutical and conceptual effects the comparative analysis of the texts will help us visualize. By focusing on the urban aesthetics developed by the two authors, this paper not only assesses the potential of some recent perspectives on Beckett, but also the limitations of a supposedly ‘non-canonising’ approach to the work of the great Irish author. Desde el cambio de milenio, los abordajes críticos de la obra de Samuel Beckett – figura incuestionable del modernismo literario– a la luz de materiales considerados marginales respecto de la literatura “seria” han tenido un crecimiento considerable. Entre otras intervenciones críticas, se han sugerido posibles conexiones entre sus escritos y ciertas ramas de la ficción especulativa. Esto ha implicado poner a prueba un régimen de jerarquías y diferencias que cierta mitología (pos)modernista enunció como una “Gran División” (Huyssen) entre arte elevado y cultura de masas. Desde el otro lado de esta divisoria, el nombre de China Miéville –comúnmente asociado a la New Weird fiction– transita hoy un proceso de canonización que realza ciertas características de su escritura, tratando otras estratégicamente, en pos de su consagración como escritor “literario”. Sintomática de estos cruces ha sido la inclusión de ambos autores en un canon de escrituras slipstream, nombre que el escritor estadounidense Bruce Sterling dio a un supuesto género emergente capaz de expresar lo enrarecido de la experiencia contemporánea. El prisma del subgénero “fantasía póstuma” nos dará una base para articular el close reading de los materiales con algunas de esas grandes ficciones totalizantes que han dado forma al debate “teórico” en Gran Bretaña y los EE.UU. desde los años ochenta. A través de este ensayo de “mediación middlebrow” (término cuya alcurnia modernista se remonta a figuras como Virginia Woolf, Dwight Macdonald o Clement Greenberg), investigaremos las premisas y los efectos metodológicos, hermenéuticos y conceptuales que arroje el análisis comparado de los textos. Focalizándonos en las estéticas urbanas desplegadas por ambos autores, evaluaremos las potencialidades de ciertas perspectivas recientes en torno a Beckett, pero también los límites de un abordaje supuestamente “no canonizante” de la obra del gran autor irlandés. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/7980 10.34096/beckettiana.n16.7980 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/7980/7070 Beckettiana; Núm. 16 (2019); 29-58 2683-9679 0327-7550 slipstream Great Divide posthumous fantasy genre fiction (post) modernism the middlebrow slipstream Gran División fantasía póstuma ficción de género (pos) modernismo lo middlebrow The city and the city. Posthumous fantasies in the short narrative of Samuel Beckett and China Miéville La ciudad y la ciudad. Fantasías póstumas en la narrativa breve de Samuel Beckett y China Miéville info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=becke&d=7980_oai |