TY - BOOK ID - 38078049 TI - Reading the Absurd PY - 2022 SN - 9780748670017 0748670017 9780748669264 0748669264 9780748669295 0748669299 9780748669271 0748669272 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Absurd (Philosophy) in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:38078049 AB - Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievementsSince Martin Esslin coined 'the Theatre of the Absurd' to describe experimental drama in the mid-twentieth century, the term 'absurd' has been adopted as a means of discussing a vast array of literary text. Many accounts have focused on the philosophical and thematic concerns of absurd prose fiction, but literary-criticism has failed to agree on the stylistic, generic, and temporal. This volume takes an alternative approach: its core aim is to provide a coherent, linguistica ER -