Beckett S Late Stage

Author : Rhys Tranter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838210353

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Beckett’s Late Stage by Rhys Tranter Pdf

Beckett’s Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate’s post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett’s prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett’s live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett’s Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.

Author : Lucy Jeffery
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838215846

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Transdisciplinary Beckett by Lucy Jeffery Pdf

This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process. Investigating specific instances where Beckett’s writing adopts musical or visual structures, Lucy Jeffery identifies instances of Beckett’s transdisciplinarity and considers how this approach to writing facilitates ways of expressing familiar Beckettian themes of abstraction, ambiguity, longing, and endlessness. With case studies spanning forty years, she evaluates Beckett’s stylistic shifts in relation to the cultural context, particularly the technological advancements and artistic movements, during which they were written. With new examples from Beckett’s notebooks, critical essays, and letters, Transdisciplinary Beckett evidences how the drastic changes that took place in the visual arts and in musical composition influenced Beckett and, in turn, were influenced by him. Transdisciplinary Beckett situates Beckett as a key figure not just in the literary marketplace but also in the fields of music, art, and broadcasting.

Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9051833474

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Samuel Beckett 1970-1989 by Marius Buning Pdf

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783838213699

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Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by Wimbush Andy Pdf

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415052025

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Theatre on Trial by Anna McMullan Pdf

Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of stage and TV space. Her application of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's work will break new and exciting ground.

Author : Kathryn White
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441112958

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Beckett and Decay by Kathryn White Pdf

The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook. However, this book explores the idea of decay as the fundamental core of Beckett's work, dominating it thematically, linguistically and artistically. Kathryn White explores Beckett's representation of physical decay, mental and spiritual deterioration and finally the idea that 'decay' is to be found in language itself. This study explores the importance of both theme and form in Beckett's work and considers whether Beckett will, in future generations, be remembered both for his representation of existence and his innovations in language.

Author : Marius Buning,Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9051835663

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Beckett in the 1990s by Marius Buning,Lois Oppenheim Pdf

Author : Enoch Brater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362039

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Beyond Minimalism by Enoch Brater Pdf

Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays not only as texts but also as theater pieces. Discussing the technical and aesthetic demands that productions like Footfalls and Rockaby make on actor, director, and spectator, Brater clarifies the essential relationship between Beckett's achievement in the context of the breakdown of genre, performance poetry, and the electronic intrusion of the recorded voice as a new theatrical convention. In the course of his analysis Brater demonstrates how Beckett's late style in the theater both continues and clarifies the dramatic lyricism that is the hallmark of earlier works such as Endgame and Waiting for Godot.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350204348

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film by Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina Pdf

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Linda Ben-Zvi
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252062566

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Women in Beckett by Linda Ben-Zvi Pdf

Twelve actresses from seven countries are interviewed about their experience of performing in plays by Samuel Beckett, including their physical and psychological preparation. An additional 19 essays explore critical themes relating to the plays as fiction, as fiction becoming drama, and as drama on stage, radio, and television. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474468558

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Beckett Critical Reader by S.E. Gontarski Pdf

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 : Andrew K. Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521274885

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Samuel Beckett by Andrew K. Kennedy Pdf

"Andrew Kennedy links Beckett's vision of a diminished humanity with his art of formally and verbally diminished resources, and traces the fundamental simplicity and coherence of Beckett's work beneath its complex textures. In the section on the plays, Dr Kennedy stresses the humour and tragicomic humanism alongside the theatrical effectiveness; and in a discussion of the fiction (the celebrated trilogy of novels) he relates the relentless diminution of 'story' to the diminishing selfhood of the narrator. An introduction outlines the personal, cultural and specifically literary contexts of Beckett's writing, while a concluding chapter offers up-to-date reflections on his œuvre, from the point-of-view of the themes highlighted throughout the book."--From publisher description.

Author : Ann C. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527563179

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Making the Stage by Ann C. Hall Pdf

MAKING THE STAGE is a collection of essays that examines the role of theatre, drama, and performance in contemporary culture, a culture that is growing increasingly technological and isolated--seemingly at odds with the very nature of theatre, a collaborative and sometimes very primitive art form. Through the course of these essays, it is clear that theatre not only survives some of the challenges of the day but even defines discussions, particularly political ones which are prohibited by an increasingly manipulated media. The essays, from a diverse group of theatre scholars, examine the mechanics of theatre, from space to sound to the use of technology, the role of women in creating theatre, the relationship between theatre and literary art forms, the politics of theatre, science and theatre, and the role of performance art. Through them all, it is clear that theatre, drama, and performance continue to speak in significant ways.

Author : Conor Carville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108422772

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Samuel Beckett and the Visual by Conor Carville Pdf

This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.