Beckett And Modernism

Author : Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle,Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319703749

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Beckett and Modernism by Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle,Pim Verhulst Pdf

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 current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre – encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film – as a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of ‘modernism after postmodernism’ in all its complexity, covering a broad range of topics spanning Beckett’s entire career. In addition to more thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett studies and modernism studies.

Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107059221

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Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination by Steven Connor Pdf

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

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393052052

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Modernism the Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay Pdf

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

Author : Rick de Villiers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474479059

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Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism by Rick de Villiers Pdf

<h4>Explores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</h4>

<ul><li>Offers the first book-length comparative study of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</li>
<li>Develops a literary theory of humility and humiliation – concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology</li>
<li>Explores the relation between negative affect, ethics and aesthetics</li></ul>

<p>Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth. As this study suggests, like the terms in question, T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett share an imperfect likeness. Between them is a common interest in states of abjection, shame and suffering – and possible responses to such states. Tracing the relation between negative affect, ethics, and aesthetics, <i>Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism</i> demonstrates how these two major modernists recuperate the affinity between humility and humiliation – concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology.</p>

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826491671

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Since Beckett by Peter Boxall Pdf

A fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence.

Author : Lindsey McIntosh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668432963

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Time and Modernism in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" by Lindsey McIntosh Pdf

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 73, University of Strathclyde, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: At the turn of the 20th century, a crisis in Enlightenment humanism had began to emerge; from the ashes of a dying romantic era, a cultural revolution known as the modernist movement arose as ‘a progressive force promising to liberate humankind from ignorance and irrationality’ (Taket and White, p. 869). Weary from the weak, unchanging patterns of Victorian writing, a collection of writers sought to break away from pre-existing ‘dead-end’ methods of creating literature by exploring new styles which were expressed in their prose and poetic works. Placing a greater emphasis upon experimentation, modernist writers took a great interest in purposely disorientating their readership with fragmentation and elements of the absurd. A conscious experimentation with language to express both its powers and limitations became apparent components in a vast body of modern literature. Whilst the previous era embodied a strong connection to nature in the belief this relationship was crucial for man’s development as an individual, modern writers displayed little interest towards the natural world. Instead, an established vein of modern thought developed that progress as an individual was dependent upon directing the eye inward.

Author : Frederick J. Marker,Christopher Innes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802082068

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Modernism in European Drama by Frederick J. Marker,Christopher Innes Pdf

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 European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett.

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414425

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Beckett Matters by S.E. Gontarski Pdf

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 : Stewart Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319755359

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Nietzsche and Modernism by Stewart Smith Pdf

Reconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107075191

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The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett by Dirk Van Hulle Pdf

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.

Author : Y. Tajiri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230624962

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Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body by Y. Tajiri Pdf

This book studies the representation of the body in Beckett's work, focusing on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', it aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was registered.

Author : K. Ebury
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137393753

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Modernism and Cosmology by K. Ebury Pdf

Through examining the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, Katherine Ebury shows cosmology had a considerable impact on modernist creative strategies, developing alternative reading models of difficult texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'.

Author : Anthony Cronin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : OCLC:705865554

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Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Pdf

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472533234

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Samuel Beckett and Cinema by Anthony Paraskeva Pdf

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

Author : P. Fifield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137319241

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Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas by P. Fifield Pdf

Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.