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Samuel Beckett and Technology

Author : Galina Kiryushina,Einat Adar,Mark Nixon
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474463290

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Samuel Beckett and Technology by Galina Kiryushina,Einat Adar,Mark Nixon Pdf

Explores Beckett's engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic career. This collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett's trademark aesthetics. Samuel Beckett and Technology assembles an innovative and diverse range of scholarly approaches to the topic, which collectively renegotiate our understanding of his work in prose, theatre, film, radio and television. What emerges from these discussions is the centrality of technology for Beckett's creative imagination, a factor that is equally enabling as it is limiting. At the same time, the book reveals how theories of technology can yield new readings of the way Beckett responds to the conditions of technological modernity. As such, Beckett's work is examined in its relation to historical and contemporary technologies, discourses of technicity and technē, post-humanism and the digital age. Galina Kiryushina is a Doctoral Candidate and Researcher at the Centre for Irish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Einat Adar is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of South Bohemia. Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also the Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation.

Samuel Beckett and Cinema

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472533234

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Samuel Beckett and Cinema by Anthony Paraskeva Pdf

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

Samuel Beckett's How It Is

Author : Anthony Cordingley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474440622

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Samuel Beckett's How It Is by Anthony Cordingley Pdf

A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiques.

The Aesthetics of Failure

Author : Marcin Tereszewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443855242

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The Aesthetics of Failure by Marcin Tereszewski Pdf

Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasize destabilization and inexpressibility as the defining features of Beckett’s output, relatively little attention has been paid to the ethical aspects of his aesthetics of failure. This book fits into that renaissance, but draws on a distinct, though rarely addressed, connection that Samuel Beckett’s work shares with that of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It is within this philosophical context that the significance of Beckett’s aesthetics of failure becomes most visible. Beckett’s work can be described as one of gradual reduction and disintegration of language, a stripping away of the tools rendering expression at all possible for the sake of approaching the inexpressible. Traditional representation yields to silence and linguistic aporia; language yields to images of absence and emptiness. The primary purpose of this study is to trace this movement of ‘unwording’ and analyze the role inexpressibility plays in Beckett’s prose in its visual, linguistic and ethical manifestations, as the aesthetics of inexpressibility is intrinsically bound with the ethical responsibility of literature understood as maintaining a relation with alterity.

Beckett, Technology and the Body

Author : Ulrika Maude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521515375

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Beckett, Technology and the Body by Ulrika Maude Pdf

An important reading of Beckett that foregrounds the importance of the body and the senses in his work.

Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose

Author : Jonathan Boulter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Human beings in literature
ISBN : 9781474430272

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Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose by Jonathan Boulter Pdf

Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

The New Samuel Beckett Studies

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471855

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The New Samuel Beckett Studies by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Samuel Beckett

Author : Deirdre Bair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 9780671691738

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Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair Pdf

Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Malone Dies

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266913

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Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett Pdf

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy. The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the barking of the dogs, at night, in the clusters of hovels up in the hills, where the stone-cutters lived, like generations of stone-cutters before them. it came down to me where I lay, in the house in the plain, wild and soft, at the limit of earshot, soon weary. The dogs of the valley replied with their gross bay all fangs and jaws and foam...

Beckett Matters

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 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.

How It Is

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,9 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

Beckett, Technology and the Body

Author : Ulrika Maude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052118150X

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Beckett, Technology and the Body by Ulrika Maude Pdf

Critics have often focused on interiority in Beckett's works, privileging the mind over the body. In this intriguing approach, the first sustained analysis of embodiment in Beckett's prose, drama and media works, Ulrika Maude argues that physical and sensory experience is in fact central to the understanding of Beckett's writing. In innovative readings of sight, hearing, touch and movement in the full range of Beckett's works, Ulrika Maude uncovers the author's effort to shed light on embodied experience, paying attention to Beckett's interests in medicine and body-altering technologies such as prostheses. Through these material, bodily concerns Beckett explores wider themes of subjectivity and experience, interiority and exteriority, foregrounding the inextricable relationship between the body, the senses and the self. This important study offers a fascinating approach to Beckett, one in which the body takes its rightful place alongside the mind.

Endgame and Act Without Words

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198815

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Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.

Samuel Beckett's Library

Author : Dirk Van Hulle,Mark Nixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107001268

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Samuel Beckett's Library by Dirk Van Hulle,Mark Nixon Pdf

The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

Translating Samuel Beckett around the World

Author : José Francisco Fernández,Pascale Sardin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.