Beckett Matters

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Laura Salisbury
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748649709

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Samuel Beckett by Laura Salisbury Pdf

Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Claudia Olk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009084840

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Shakespeare and Beckett by Claudia Olk Pdf

'The danger is in the neatness of identifications', Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. This book addresses the vast intertextual network between the works of both writers and explores the resonant correspondences between them. It analyses where and how these resonances manifest themselves in their aesthetics, theatre, language and form. It traces convergences and inversions across both œuvres that resound beyond their conditions of production and possibility. Uncovering hitherto unexplored relations between the texts of an early modern and a late modern author, this study seeks to offer fresh readings of single passages and entire works, but it will also describe productive tensions and creative incongruences between them.

Author : James Brophy,William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009222587

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Samuel Beckett's Poetry by James Brophy,William Davies Pdf

Samuel Beckett's Poetry is the first book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of twentieth century poetry and literature, as well as for specialists of Beckett's work. This volume explores how poetry provided Beckett a medium of expression during key moments in his life, from his earliest attempts at securing a reputation as a published writer, to the work of restoring his own speech while suffering aphasia shortly before his death. Often these were moments of desperation and discouragement, when more substantial works were not possible: moments of illness, of personal loss or of public disaster. This volume includes an introduction that contextualizes Beckett as a poet and a chronology of the composition and publication of all his known poems. Essays offer a range of critical perspectives, from translation theory, war poetics and Irish Studies to Beckett's debts to Modernism, Romanticism and the Jazz Age.

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 : Cristina Ionica
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030349028

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The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction by Cristina Ionica Pdf

The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Beckett’s works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, exploitation, and repression, alongside unprecedented demands for high-volume information-processing and connectivity. Part I shows that, in generating consistent flows of solidarity-based angry laughter, Beckett’s works sabotage coercive couplings of the subject to social machines by translating subordination and repression into processes rather than data of experience. Through an examination of Beckett’s attack on gender/ class-related normative injunctions, the book shows that Beckett’s works can generate solidarity and action-oriented affects in readers/ spectators regardless of their training in textual analysis. Part II proposes that Beckett’s works can weaken the cognitive dominance of constrictive “frames” in readers/ audiences, so that toxic ideological formations such as the association of safety and comfort with simplicity and “sameness” are rejected and more complex cognitive operations are welcomed instead—a process that bolsters the mind’s ability to operate at ease with increasingly complex, malleable, extensible, and inclusive frames, as well as with increasing volumes of information.

Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9051833474

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Samuel Beckett 1970-1989 by Marius Buning Pdf

Author : William Davies,Helen Bailey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030471101

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Beckett and Politics by William Davies,Helen Bailey Pdf

This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens: it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett’s life, his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett’s work is not only ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader relationships between literature, culture and politics.

Author : Corey Wakeling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350153134

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Beckett's Laboratory by Corey Wakeling Pdf

Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice. Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe. Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.

Author : Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle,Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : José Francisco Fernández,Pascale Sardin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030717308

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Translating Samuel Beckett around the World by José Francisco Fernández,Pascale Sardin Pdf

The global reception of Samuel Beckett raises numerous questions: in which areas of the world was Beckett first translated? Why were Beckett texts sometimes slow to penetrate certain cultures? How were national literatures impacted by Beckett's oeuvre? Translating Samuel Beckett around the World brings together leading researchers in Beckett studies to discuss these questions and explore the fate of Beckett in their own societies and national languages. The current text provides ample coverage of the presence of Beckett in geographical contexts normally ignored by literary criticism, and reveals unknown aspects of the 1969 Nobel Prize winner interacting with translators of his work in a number of different countries.

Author : James Baxter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030815721

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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction by James Baxter Pdf

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Beckett’s dissemination in America, following the author’s long-standing relationship with the countercultural magazine Evergreen Review and its dramatic role in redrawing the possibilities of American culture in the 1960s. While Beckett would be largely removed from his American context, this book follows his vigorous, albeit sometimes awkward, reception alongside the authors and institutions central to shaping his legacies in 20th and 21st century America.

Author : Laura Salisbury
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748647491

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Samuel Beckett by Laura Salisbury Pdf

Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representationSamuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable seriousness of the post-Holocaust situation. How can these two statements sit together?Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama, and critical writings, and including readings of Murphy, the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the late prose, and the late plays, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the same time, opening up a space for how it ought to be.Key Features:* Presents innovative readings of the comedy found in Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings* Spans Beckett's entire oeuvre, using published and unpublished sources* Engages with recent and contemporary philosophical approaches to literature, including work by Derrida, Badiou, Levinas, and Adorno* Makes a unique contribution to theoretical work on comedy and laughter* Provides a rigorous introduction to the theoretical debates surrounding the relationship between modernist literature and a post-war ethics of representation

Author : L. X. Beckett
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250165244

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Gamechanger by L. X. Beckett Pdf

Neuromancer meets Star Trek in Gamechanger, a fantastic new book from award-winning author L. X. Beckett. First there was the Setback. Then came the Clawback. Now we thrive. Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation. The first to be raised free of the troubles of the late twenty-first century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That’s how she met Luciano Pox. Luce is a firebrand and has made a name for himself as a naysayer. But there’s more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery of the planet. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.