Beckett In The Cultural Field Beckett Dans Le Champ Culturel

Author : Jürgen Siess,Matthij Engelberts,Angela Moorjani
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401210256

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Beckett in the Cultural Field / Beckett dans le champ culturel by Jürgen Siess,Matthij Engelberts,Angela Moorjani Pdf

The thematic part of this volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui is devoted mainly to Beckett’s texts of the forties and later, and particularly to those he composed after his adoption of the French language. The essays presented in this part of the current issue attempt to see Beckett as a writer among other authors with whom he connects or competes, to examine his relations with artists, whether Beckett stimulates them or is stimulated by them, and to define his ‘posture’ and his position in the cultural field. How does the budding francophone writer position himself in the cultural field during his difficult beginnings and after his first successes? How can he be situated in relation to the three cultures he is dealing with? What are the parallels between Beckett’s own texts and those of other writers (literary and philosophical), but also between his work and the work of artists of the period? The ten essays in the free-space section of this volume also mainly concern his texts that were first written in French, and situate Beckett in relation to different topics, from Dante to the ‘War on Terror.’

Author : Llewellyn Brown
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783838212395

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Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze by Llewellyn Brown Pdf

Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices—eyes, mirrors, windows—point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of any beyond, light and darkness, spectres—manifestations without origin—reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within perspective. Finally, Beckett’s use of the audio-visual media deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence that escapes seeing. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Beckett’s creation. The theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan—in relation with corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the visual arts—offer an indispensible framework to understand the imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental opacity of existence.

Author : Llewellyn Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838268194

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Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice by Llewellyn Brown Pdf

The voice traverses Beckett’s work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice’s multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject’s vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett’s work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.

Author : William Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350106857

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Samuel Beckett and the Second World War by William Davies Pdf

In the wake of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett wrote some of the most significant literary works of the 20th century. This is the first full-length historical study to examine the far-reaching impact of the war on Beckett's creative and intellectual sensibilities. Drawing on a substantial body of archival material, including letters, manuscripts, diaries and interviews, as well as a wealth of historical sources, this book explores Beckett's writing in a range of political contexts, from the racist dogma of Nazism and aggressive traditionalism of the Vichy regime to Irish neutrality censorship and the politics of recovery in the French Fourth Republic. Along the way, Samuel Beckett and the Second World War casts new light on Beckett's political commitments and his concepts of history as they were formed during Europe's darkest hour.

Author : Natalie Leeder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786603210

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Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno by Natalie Leeder Pdf

This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between Theodor W. Adorno and Samuel Beckett, in particular with regard to freedom and its reconceptualization by Adorno.

Author : David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137542656

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Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio by David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning Pdf

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Author : Alan Warren Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351592499

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Surreal Beckett by Alan Warren Friedman Pdf

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during his early Paris days (1928 - late 1930s) that James Knowlson dubbed them his "Joyce years." But Surrealism and Surrealists rivaled Joyce for Beckett’s early and continuing attention, if not affection, so that Raymond Federman called 1929-45 Beckett’s "surrealist period." Considering both claims, this volume delves deeper into each argument by obscuring the boundaries between theses differentiating studies. These received wisdoms largely maintain that Beckett’s Joycean connection and influence developed a negative impact in his early works, and that Beckett only found his voice when he broke the connection after Joyce’s death. Beckett came to accept his own inner darkness as his subject matter, writing in French and using a first-person narrative voice in his fiction and competing personal voices in his plays. Critics have mainly viewed Beckett’s Surrealist connections as roughly co-terminus with Joycean ones, and ultimately of little enduring consequence. Surreal Beckett argues that both early influences went much deeper for Beckett as he made his own unique way forward, transforming them, particularly Surrealist ones, into resources that he drew upon his entire career. Ultimately, Beckett endowed his characters with resources sufficient to transcend limitations their surreal circumstances imposed upon them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004468382

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Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett by Anonim Pdf

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.

Author : Anthony Cordingley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441142894

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Self-Translation by Anthony Cordingley Pdf

A study of the multilingual cultural contexts and the hybrid identities created when writers self-translate.

Author : Michela Bariselli,Niamh M. Bowe,William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527509832

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Samuel Beckett and Europe by Michela Bariselli,Niamh M. Bowe,William Davies Pdf

Drawing on the diverse critical debates of the ‘Beckett and Europe’ conference held in Reading, UK, in 2015, this volume brings together a selection of essays to offer an international response to the central question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for our understandings of the work of Samuel Beckett. Ranging from historical and archival work to the close interrogation of language and form, from the influences of various national literary traditions on Beckett’s writing to his influence on the work of other writers and thinkers, this book examines the question of Europe from multiple vantage points so as to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s oeuvre both challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’. With a full introductory chapter examining the challenging implications of the term ‘Europe’ in the contemporary period, this volume treats Europe as a recognition of the multiple ways that Beckett’s poetry, criticism, prose and drama invite new understandings of the role of history, culture and tradition in one of the most significant bodies of writing of the twentieth century.

Author : Steve Spalding
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628974201

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Minuit by Steve Spalding Pdf

"How does a novel accrue value? How do certain new and unknown authors and their works make their way from obscurity into the pantheon of the greats, or—at least—the firmament of the stars?" Minuit examines the role played by French publishing house Editions de Minuit in altering the conception of literary France, not once but twice. The history of Les Editions de Minuit is an integral part of the history of the literary field; in Minuit, Spalding's work captures many of the cultural dimensions of literary production and dissemination at the height of France’s post-war intellectual and literary effervescence, and again, in the more recent period, when Minuit became the vehicle for French literature’s ‘postmodern’ turn.

Author : Angela Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135254827

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Before Auschwitz by Angela Kershaw Pdf

Kershaw analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France, exploring the cultural exchange between France and Russia and the political implications of Némirovsky’s fiction--particularly the enthusiastic reception of her work in far-right anti-Semitic journals.

Author : Angela B. Moorjani,Danièle de Ruyter-Tognotti,Sjef Houppermans
Publisher : Brill / Rodopi
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004348077

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Beckett in Conversation, "yet Again" by Angela B. Moorjani,Danièle de Ruyter-Tognotti,Sjef Houppermans Pdf

Collected here are conversations with Samuel Beckett recounted by translators, scholars, artists, and theatre and media practitioners drawing on unpublished notes of meetings and uncollected (mostly) correspondence with the author.

Author : Kevin Oheix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3656667772

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The Question of Multiple Identities in Samuel Beckett's Works by Kevin Oheix Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 16 / 20, University of Rennes 2, language: English, comment: Mention bien, abstract: Ce memoire traite des identites plurielles et de l'entre-deux culturel dans les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett. The void has been a great source of inspiration for Samuel Barclay Beckett and his critics who tend to take into account the characteristics of his mind rather than his writings. Such a deconstructionist discourse on negative identity is redundant but also contradictory. This study aims at exploring the fundamental question of multiple identities in Samuel Beckett's fictions and dramas, particularly The Unnamable from the trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape and other relevant works. As a novelist, playwright and translator, Beckett can be said to be part of a revolutionary literature. His rejection and exploitation of the literary tradition make him an ambivalent writer. The problem of singularity regarding his works is crucial in the stabilization of identity. Moreover, the lack of a major theme becomes an obstacle to the definition of such works. The representation of these multiple identities will be analyzed in order to elucidate the following inquiry: To what extent does Beckett's texts shed light on the seminal notions of rootlessness and cultural in-betweenness as well as on the rejection of identification through self-exploration and radical experimentation? A certain number of critical readings will be used to discuss Beckett's place in literature through his characters' apparent lack of attachment to any tradition. Does literature have a function in the formation of identity? What sort of renovation does the Beckettian texts offer? It will be first noted that his borrowings from the French and Irish traditions coupled with his aloofness to them are indicators of the complexity of his mode of communication which is itself predicated on ind

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015024059332

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Joven Cine & Teatro by Anonim Pdf