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Beckett the Shape Changer

Katharine Worth
Beckett the Shape Changer Book PDF

Author : Katharine Worth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000378504

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The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett’s art as dramatist and story-teller. His astonishing flexibility and inventiveness is stressed throughout, either in studies of single novels, or from the whole range of the fiction and stage drama, or from the experiments in other media: the solitary film, the radio plays. Beckett’s bilingualism, one of the strangest aspects of his Proteanism, is examined through a comparison of the French and English texts of some of his stage plays. The emphasis of the essays is literary rather than philosophical: they explore narrative and dramatic processes, the strange partial transitions between them, the fine relations of form and feeling which Beckett aims at through whatever medium he is using, and his humaneness, expressed through the many nuances of his humour. The shorter fiction and the later writings also receive close attention.

Beckett and Badiou

Andrew Gibson
Beckett and Badiou Book PDF

Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191525902

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Beckett and Badiou by Andrew Gibson Pdf

Beckett and Badiou offers a provocative new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent of contemporary French philosophers. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. Yet for Badiou philosophy must be integrally affirmative, whilst Beckett apparently commits his art to a work of negation. Beckett and Badiou explores the coherences, contradictions, and extreme complexities of the intellectual relationship between the two oeuvres. It examines Badiou's philosophy of being, the event, truth, and the subject and the importance of mathematics within his system. It considers the major features of his politics, ethics, and aesthetics and provides an explanation, interpretation, critique, and radical revision of his work on Beckett. It argues that, once revised, Badiou's version of Beckett offers an extraordinarily powerful tool for understanding his work. Badiou and Beckett are instances of a vestigial or melancholic modernism; that is, in the teeth of a contemporary culture that dreams ever more ambitiously of plenitude, they commit themselves to a rigorous concept of limit and intermittency. Truth and value are occasional and rare. It is seldom that the chance event arrives to disturb the inertia of the world. For Badiou, however, it is the event and its consequences alone that matter. Beckett rather insists on the common experience of intermittency as destitution. His art is a series of limit-figures, exquisitely subtle and nuanced forms for a world whose state of seemingly rigid paralysis is also always volatile, delicately balanced.

Samuel Beckett

David Pattie
Samuel Beckett Book PDF

Author : David Pattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135120399

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Samuel Beckett by David Pattie Pdf

Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The Absurd. Samuel Beckett is a comprehensive introduction to his life and work as well as an outline of the critical issues surrounding his work. This guidebook leaves judgements up to the student by explaining the full range of often very different critical views and interpretations and offers guides to further reading in each area discussed.

The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

John Pilling
The Cambridge Companion to Beckett Book PDF

Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521424135

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The Cambridge Companion to Beckett by John Pilling Pdf

The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book.

Beckett Before Godot

John Pilling
Beckett Before Godot Book PDF

Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521604516

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Beckett Before Godot by John Pilling Pdf

A leading Beckett scholar and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett, offers a coherent critical account of Beckett's earliest years.

Samuel Beckett's Novel "Watt"

Gottfried Büttner
Samuel Beckett s Novel Watt Book PDF

Author : Gottfried Büttner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512800913

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Samuel Beckett's Novel "Watt" by Gottfried Büttner Pdf

"T]he finest full-length work devoted to Watt. . . . The most important study to date, and quite possibly the standard interpretation for many years to come."—Deirdre Bair, author of Samuel Beckett: A Biography

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

David Pattie
The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett Book PDF

Author : David Pattie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415202534

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The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett by David Pattie Pdf

This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.

The Irish Beckett

John P. Harrington
The Irish Beckett Book PDF

Author : John P. Harrington
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815625286

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The Irish Beckett by John P. Harrington Pdf

Breaking with a powerful tradition among scholars that insists that Beckett’s Irishness is no more than an accident of birth, Harrington provides compelling evidence to the ways in which many of Beckett’s best-known texts are deeply involved in Irish issues and situations. Providing new readings of such works as More Pricks Than Kicks, Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier, Waiting for Godot, and Endgame, Harrington provides an understanding of Beckett’s work in its representation of Ireland, of Irish history, and of Irish literary traditions.

Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

James Knowlson
Damned to Fame the Life of Samuel Beckett Book PDF

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408857663

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Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson Pdf

_______________ 'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent 'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter's Proust and Richard Ellmann's Joyce in sensitivity and fascination' - Daily Telegraph 'It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives' - Evening Standard _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD PRIZE _______________ Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love

John Keller
Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love Book PDF

Author : John Keller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719063132

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Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love by John Keller Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive, and highly original argument about the fundamental literary value and the underlying psychological meaning of Beckett's work.

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

David Bradby
Beckett Waiting for Godot Book PDF

Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521594294

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Beckett: Waiting for Godot by David Bradby Pdf

Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all aspects of their staging. In this book David Bradby explores the impact of the play and its influence on acting, directing, design, and the role of theatre in society. Bradby begins with an analysis of the play and its historical context. After discussing the first productions in France, Britain and America, he examines subsequent productions in Africa, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, China and Japan. The book assesses interpretations by actors such as Bert Lahr, David Warrilow, Georges Wilson, Barry McGovern and Ben Kingsley, and directors Roger Blin, Susan Sontag, Sir Peter Hall, Luc Bondy, Yukio Ninagawa and Beckett himself. It also contains an extensive production chronology, bibliography and illustrations from major productions.

The International Reception of Samuel Beckett

Mark Nixon,Matthew Feldman
The International Reception of Samuel Beckett Book PDF

Author : Mark Nixon,Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441160027

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The International Reception of Samuel Beckett by Mark Nixon,Matthew Feldman Pdf

Over the last decade, Samuel Beckett's popularity has rocketed around the world and he is increasingly recognised as one of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century but there has been very little scholarly work on Beckett's reception outside Europe. This comprehensive volume brings together essays from leading critics on Beckett's international critical reception. Due to Beckett's linguistic and artistic abilities, he was intimately involved in the translation and production of his writings in German, French, English and Spanish; and consequently countries using these languages have sophisticated critical traditions. However, many other countries have adopted Beckett as their own, from places where he lived for lengthy periods of his life (England, France, Ireland and Germany), to those finding directly applicable political messages in his work (such as ex-Soviet states including the Czech Republic and Romania), and those countries whose national literary traditions bear heavily upon his work (e.g. Norway and Italy). This fascinating volume reveals Beckett's evolving critical reception from contemporary reviews to the present.

Samuel Beckett

Andrew Gibson
Samuel Beckett Book PDF

Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861897138

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Samuel Beckett by Andrew Gibson Pdf

Writer Samuel Beckett (1906–89) is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the despair in his work is never absolute, instead it is intertwined with black humor and an indomitable will to endure––characteristics best embodied by his most famous characters, Vladimir and Estragon, in the play Waiting for Godot. Beckett himself was a supremely modern, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted biographies and resisted letting himself be pigeonholed by easy interpretation or single definition. Andrew Gibson’s accessible critical biography overcomes Beckett’s reticence and carefully considers the writer’s work in relation to the historical circumstances of his life. In Samuel Beckett, Gibson tracks Beckett from Ireland after independence to Paris in the late 1920s, from London in the ’30s to Nazi Germany and Vichy France, and finally through the cold war to the fall of communism in the late ’80s. Gibson narrates the progression of Beckett’s life as a writer—from a student in Ireland to the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for literature—through chapters that examine individual historical events and the works that grew out of those experiences. A notoriously private figure, Beckett sought refuge from life in his work, where he expressed his disdain for the suffering and unnecessary absurdity of much that he witnessed. This concise and engaging biography provides an essential understanding of Beckett's work in response to many of the most significant events of the past century.

Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince
Samuel Beckett Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317885832

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Samuel Beckett by Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince Pdf

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.

Beckett and Decay

Kathryn White
Beckett and Decay Book PDF

Author : Kathryn White
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.