From Burke To Beckett

Author : W. J. McCormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053478288

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From Burke to Beckett by W. J. McCormack Pdf

In 1985 the highly acclaimed "Ascendancy and tradition " posed the question: "Why did Ireland, a small country by any standard, contribute so prolifically to the modernist movement?" Extending this original theme to include additional authors, this book revises and elaborates on a number of crucial arguments which still arouse heated debate. Beginning with correspondence and pamphlets on the bourgeois origins of Protestant Ascendency, this book places its concerns in a broad European context, culminating in WWII. -- Publisher description.

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441100672

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Since Beckett by Peter Boxall Pdf

Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide array of guises, can be seen to emerge. Since Beckett looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited. In reading Beckett against the contemporary in this way, Peter Boxall offers both a compelling re-reading of Beckett, and a powerful new analysis of contemporary culture.

Author : Seán Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521111805

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Beckett and Ireland by Seán Kennedy Pdf

A volume of essays to provide compelling evidence of the continuing relevance of Ireland to Beckett's writing.

Author : G. Herren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137109088

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Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television by G. Herren Pdf

This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays in depth, emphasizing the central role that memory plays in these haunting works.

Author : L. Oppenheim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504622

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Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies by L. Oppenheim Pdf

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies explores the evolution of critical approaches to Beckett's writing. It will appeal to graduate students (and advance undergraduates) as well as scholars, for it offers both an overview of Beckett studies and investigates current debates within the interdisciplinary critical arena. Each of the contributors is an eminent Beckett specialist who has published widely in the field. The volume contains an introduction, twelve essays and a guide for further reading.

Author : Emilie Morin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108417990

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Beckett's Political Imagination by Emilie Morin Pdf

Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.

Author : J. Jeffers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230101463

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Beckett’s Masculinity by J. Jeffers Pdf

This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : S E (Florida State University) Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748675708

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Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts by S E (Florida State University) Gontarski Pdf

The 35 new and original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for BeckettOCOs work world-wide. As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabat(r), and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; Fictions; European Context; Irish Context; Film, Radio & Television; Language/Writing; Philosophies; Theatre & Performance; Global Beckett. Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation."e;

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748675692

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Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts by S.E. Gontarski Pdf

A landmark collection showcasing the diversity of Samuel Beckett's creative output The 35 original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Beckett's work world-wide. As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabate, and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; The Body; Fiction; Film, Radio & Television; Global Beckett; Language / Writing; Philosophy; Reading; and Theatre & Performance. Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation.

Author : James McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192555496

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Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath by James McNaughton Pdf

Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. Beckett comically embodies conservative religious and political doctrines; he plays Irish colonial history against contemporary European horrors; he examines aesthetic complicity in effecting atrocity and covering it up. This book offers insightful, original, and vivid readings of Beckett's work up to Three Novels and Endgame.

Author : Paulo Eduardo Carvalho,Rui Carvalho Homen
Publisher : Universidade do Porto
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9728932332

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Plural Beckett Pluriel by Paulo Eduardo Carvalho,Rui Carvalho Homen Pdf

Author : Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788864534053

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Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett by Roberta Cauchi-Santoro Pdf

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).

Author : Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle,Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Mark Nixon,Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.