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Beckett's Thing

David Lloyd
Beckett s Thing Book PDF

Author : David Lloyd
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474415736

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Beckett's Thing by David Lloyd Pdf

Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.

Transdisciplinary Beckett

Lucy Jeffery
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Author : Lucy Jeffery
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.

Samuel Beckett in Confinement

James Little
Samuel Beckett in Confinement Book PDF

Author : James Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350112346

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Samuel Beckett in Confinement by James Little Pdf

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett's work. Covering the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics. "James Little's Beckett in Confinement offers a brilliant analysis of the politics behind Beckett's production of closed space, both as a writer and as a director. It carefully examines the move from writing about closed space to creating an art of confinement. To argue that Beckett's use of confined space is central to the political dynamics of his works, James Little also superbly employs genetic criticism to open up the confined space of the published text and bring highly relevant draft materials back into the critical conversation." Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of Oxford, UK "The many characters Beckett invented share one characteristic: they are all imprisoned or trapped in some way, no matter where they are. Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space draws on untapped riches from Beckett's correspondence and the archives to reconsider the obsession with entrapment, coercion and detention central to Beckett's varied oeuvre. In this exciting and illuminating analysis, James Little offers a fresh and original reading of the work's ethical and political dimensions, and shows us why we need to stop thinking about confinement as a metaphysical metaphor." Emilie Morin, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York, UK "Little breaks new ground in this expansive investigation to explore how confinement is a central component of Beckett's political aesthetics ... The reader is guided by a crisp and easy style of writing as Little demonstrates a command of sources which are broad in scope, but negotiated to form a compelling and impactful study." Journal of Beckett Studies

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism

Wimbush Andy
Still Samuel Beckett s Quietism Book PDF

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 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’.

Rethinking Beckett

Lance S Butler,Robin J Davis,Benjamin Fraser
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Author : Lance S Butler,Robin J Davis,Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349205615

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Rethinking Beckett by Lance S Butler,Robin J Davis,Benjamin Fraser Pdf

Do we take Beckett seriously enough? This study starts from the assumption that we do not, and that this arises from an unwillingness to face up to the central philosophical issues implicit in his work. By associating Samuel Beckett with the philosophy of Heidegger, Sartre, and more experimentally, Hegel, this study attempts to illuminate Beckett with the help of these philosophers, on the assumption that his work offers objective correlatives of their central insights.

Bowie, Beckett, and Being

Rodney Sharkey
Bowie Beckett and Being Book PDF

Author : Rodney Sharkey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501391262

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Bowie, Beckett, and Being by Rodney Sharkey Pdf

Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of their artistic practices, the study also illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms of human experience otherwise silenced by normative modes of representation. To liberate these experiences, Bowie and Beckett create alternative theatrical, musical, and philosophical spaces, which help frame the power relations of the psychological, verbal, and material places we inhabit. The result is that their work demonstrates how individuals are disciplined by the implicitly repressive social order of late capitalism, while, simultaneously, offering an informed political alternative. In making the injunctions of the social order apparent, Beckett and Bowie also transgress its terms, opening up new spaces beyond the conventional identities of family, nation, and gender, until both artists finally coalesce in the quantum space of the posthuman.

Samuel Beckett as World Literature

Thirthankar Chakraborty,Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
Samuel Beckett as World Literature Book PDF

Author : Thirthankar Chakraborty,Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501358814

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Samuel Beckett as World Literature by Thirthankar Chakraborty,Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez Pdf

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel Prize winner who published and self-translated in both French and English across literary genres, Beckett is recognized on a global scale as a preeminent author and dramatist of the 20th century. Samuel Beckett as World Literature brings together a wide range of international contributors to share their perspectives on Beckett's presence in countries such as China, Japan, Serbia, India and Brazil, among others, and to flesh out Beckett's relationship with postcolonial literatures and his place within the 'canon' of world literature.

Beckett and Phenomenology

Ulrika Maude,Matthew Feldman
Beckett and Phenomenology Book PDF

Author : Ulrika Maude,Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441194619

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Beckett and Phenomenology by Ulrika Maude,Matthew Feldman Pdf

Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the phenomenal in Beckett's literary worlds, comparing and contrasting his writing with key figures including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It advances an analysis of hitherto unexplored phenomenological themes, such as nausea, immaturity and sleep, in Beckett's work. Through an exploration of specific thinkers and Beckett's own artistic method, it offers the first sustained and comprehensive account of Beckettian phenomenology.

Watt

Samuel Beckett
Watt Book PDF

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266944

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Watt by Samuel Beckett Pdf

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.

Beckett, Lacan and the Voice

Llewellyn Brown
Beckett Lacan and the Voice Book PDF

Author : Llewellyn Brown
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838208190

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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

Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett

Elisabeth Marie Loevlie
Literary Silences in Pascal Rousseau and Beckett Book PDF

Author : Elisabeth Marie Loevlie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199266360

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Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett by Elisabeth Marie Loevlie Pdf

To explore literary silence is to explore the relationships between texts and the silence of the ineffable. This study describes silent dynamics through readings of Pascal's 'Pensees', Rousseau's 'Reveries', and Beckett's trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies' and 'The Unnameable'.

Beckett/Philosophy

Matthew Feldman,Karim Mamdani
Beckett Philosophy Book PDF

Author : Matthew Feldman,Karim Mamdani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838267012

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Beckett/Philosophy by Matthew Feldman,Karim Mamdani Pdf

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.?S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett StudiesThis is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett's work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.?Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney

How It Is

Samuel Beckett
How It Is Book PDF

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266869

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How It Is by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from within, from the dark, the story is tirelessly and intimately explicit about the feelings that pervade his world, but fragmentary and vague about all else therein or beyond. Together with Molloy, How It Is counts for many readers as Beckett's greatest accomplishment in the novel form. It is also his most challenging narrative, both stylistically and for the pessimism of its vision, which continues the themes of reduced circumstance, of another life before the present, and the self-appraising search for an essential self, which were inaugurated in the great prose narratives of his earlier trilogy. she sits aloof ten yards fifteen yards she looks up looks at me says at last to herself all is well he is working my head where is my head it rests on the table my hand trembles on the table she sees I am not sleeping the wind blows tempestuous the little clouds drive before it the table glides from light to darkness darkness to light Edited by Edouard Magessa O'Reilly

Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness

Hannah Simpson
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness Book PDF

Author : Hannah Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : French drama
ISBN : 9780192863263

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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness by Hannah Simpson Pdf

Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.

Beckett and Musicality

Sara Jane Bailes,Nicholas Till
Beckett and Musicality Book PDF

Author : Sara Jane Bailes,Nicholas Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317175902

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Beckett and Musicality by Sara Jane Bailes,Nicholas Till Pdf

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.