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Author : Ruby Cohn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472031313
An indispensable guide to the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, spanning sixty years
Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107075191
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
Author : Linda Ben-Zvi,Angela Moorjani
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195325478
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett, this book, containing essays by leading international scholars, rethinks traditional critical assumptions, readings, and theories concerning the Beckett canon, and reassesses his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to future generations.
Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107017030
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.
Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266944
Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from Murphy to the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe. Watt tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Itself a critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that are littered with mistakes, both major and minor. The new Faber edition offers for the first time a corrected text based on a scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history.
Author : Kathryn Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351546430
Investigating the complex history of visual art?s engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays in the collection develop new critical approaches to the analysis of twentieth-century bookworks and explore ways in which European writers and painters challenged the boundary between visual and linguistic expression in the content, production, and physical form of books. The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe offers a detailed examination of word-image relations in forms ranging from the livre d?artiste to personal diaries and almanacs. It analyzes innovative attempts to challenge familiar hierarchies between texts and images, to fuse different expressive media, and to reconceptualize traditional notions of ekphrasis. Giving consideration to the material qualities of books, the works discussed in this collection also test and celebrate the act of reading, while locating it in the context of other sensory experiences. Essays examine works by Dufy, Matisse, Beckett, Kandinsky, Braque, and Ponge, among other European artists and writers active during the twentieth century.
Author : Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780674504851
Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.
Author : David Weisberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791491911
Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language, and narrative. Weisberg explores Beckett's emergence as a major novelist and intertwines sharp analyses of the relations between narrative form and social content in the key works of the Beckett canon. He considers how and why Beckett's work has become ahistorically—and incorrectly—subsumed into poststructuralist-inspired claims about language and narrative ideology, and he uses Beckett as a case study for tracing out the genesis of the opposition of "autonomous" and "committed" art, and how this opposition influenced the canonization of modernism in the 1950s and 1960s.
Author : Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472084364
Interviews with and essays by twenty-two prominent directors of Samuel Beckett's work
Author : Burç İdem Dinçel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443835473
Samuel Beckett’s theatrical works maintain a prominent position within contemporary theatre. His plays provide a prodigious potential to study several forms of acting, staging, and dramaturgy, as well as language and translation, thereby setting a fertile ground to tackle the problematic issue of the relationship between theatre criticism and theatre-translation criticism. That is precisely what this study examines by drawing attention to the fundamental characteristics of translated theatre texts as blueprints for productions and taking several aspects into account from directing to acting, from staging to performance, together with the language factor. To that end, Burç İdem Dinçel focuses on one of Beckett’s most significant plays, namely, Krapp’s Last Tape, situating it within the author’s oeuvre and along the way scrutinising not only the theatrical pieces but also the prose. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings forth a new dimension into approaching theatre through translation.
Author : Sara Jane Bailes,Nicholas Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317175896
Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett’s engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett’s work. In Beckett’s drama and prose writings, the relationship with music plays out in implicit and explicit ways. Several of his works incorporate canonical music by composers such as Schubert and Beethoven. Other works integrate music as a compositional element, in dialogue or tension with text and image, while others adopt rhythm, repetition and pause to the extent that the texts themselves appear to be ’scored’. But what, precisely, does it mean to say that a piece of prose or writing for theatre, radio or screen, is ’musical’? The essays included in this book explore a number of ways in which Beckett’s writings engage with and are engaged by musicality, discussing familiar and less familiar works by Beckett in detail. Ranging from the scholarly to the personal in their respective modes of response, and informed by approaches from performance and musicology, literary studies, philosophy, musical composition and creative practice, these essays provide a critical examination of the ways we might comprehend musicality as a definitive and often overlooked attribute throughout Beckett’s work.
Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414418
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career.a Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett's debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett's creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way.a Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.
Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474468558
The Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present.
Author : Daniela Caselli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719071569
With original and informative intertextual reading of Beckett's work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to and parodies of Dante, Daniela Caselli presents a study of the relationship between Beckett and Dante.
Author : Peter J. Murphy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442692640
Given that the Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was personally acquainted with the modernist master James Joyce, and even helped research and promote Finnegans Wake, it should come as no surprise that Beckett was greatly influenced by Joyce's own work. However, much analysis of Beckett's work tends to argue that he forged his own artistic identity in opposition to Joyce, seeking and eventually finding styles and methods unoccupied by his "mentor." Beckett's Dedalus is a comprehensive reassessment of this line of criticism and traces the nature and extent of Joyce's influence in more complex, contestatory, and complementary ways throughout all of Beckett's major fiction. Paying close attention to the extensive network of allusions Beckett derived from Joyce's writing, P.J. Murphy reveals how Beckett consistently echoed and engaged in dialogue with Joyce's works, especially A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, in particular, its protagonist Stephen Dedalus. This study proposes that the relationship between the two writers was a complex life-giving and art-building dialogue concerned with aesthetic theories, depictions of reality, and the artistic integrity needed to carry out these critical investigations. emBeckett's Dedalus is a fascinating study of the literary influence one generation has on the next. It will change the way we consider the relationship between two of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.