Samuel Beckett And The State Of Ireland

Author : Alan Graham,Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527515017

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Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland by Alan Graham,Scott Hamilton Pdf

Reflecting the rich critical debate at the ‘Beckett and the State of Ireland’ conferences held in Dublin between 2011 and 2013, this volume brings together a selection of essays which explore and respond to the Irish concerns which echo in the fiction, drama, and poetry of Samuel Beckett. From the portrayals of the haunting landscape of South County Dublin in Beckett’s work to its interrogation of the political and social pieties of the infant nation state in which the author came to maturity, Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland uncovers the enduring presence of Ireland in one of the most influential bodies of writing in modern literature. Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, representations of disability in Beckett’s fiction and drama, Ireland’s culture of incarceration, the role of eugenics in the Irish cultural imagination, and the themes of exile and displacement in Beckett’s writing, amongst other concerns, Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work and introduces new and challenging perspectives to the study of Irish literature and culture.

Author : Seán Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571296989

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Murphy by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Edited by J. C. C. MaysMurphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancée Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure. Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. But Beckett's achievement lies in the brilliantly original language used to communicate this vision of isolation and misunderstanding. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy's world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett's prose releases characters and readers alike into exuberance.

Author : Emilie Morin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Feargal Whelan
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3838211235

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Beckett and the Irish Protestant Imagination by Feargal Whelan Pdf

By providing a detailed analysis of the cultural environment into which Samuel Beckett was born, Feargal Whelan constructs a frequently ignored context for the body of Beckett's work. Detailed analysis of works drawn from all genres and from all periods of Beckett's oeuvre trace his engagement with Ireland and the impact of the country, its culture, and its landscape on his writing, from the direct social commentaries of the early prose to the haunted persistence of its memories in the later work.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571358069

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Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Beckett's first 'literary landmark' ( St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' ( New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198402

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I Can't Go On, I'll Go On by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed look at his work. Included, among others, are: - The complete plays Waiting for Godot, Krapp’s Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Not I, and That Time - Selections from his novels Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, and The Unnamable - The shorter works “Dante and the Lobster,” “The Expelled,” Imagination Dead Imagine, and Lessness - A selection of Beckett’s poetry and critical writings With an indispensable introduction by editor and Beckett intimate Richard Seaver, and featuring a useful select bibliography, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On is indeed an invaluable introduction to a writer who has changed the face of modern literature.

Author : Declan Kiberd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674981669

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After Ireland by Declan Kiberd Pdf

Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland’s sovereignty—a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,8 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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518220061

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Undoing Time by Anonim Pdf

Author : Friedhelm Rathjen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783947261512

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Irish Company by Friedhelm Rathjen Pdf

22 essays and notes on Joyce & Beckett, cycling & walking, Wicklow & Connemara, Molly & Bloom, horses & cattle, trivia & totality, translation & migration, ashplants & annotations, long ways & short cuts, connections & distractions.

Author : Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192889492

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Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health by Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston Pdf

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives from Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social History of Medicine, it traces the ways in which authors, politicians, and activists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland harnessed debates over sexual hygiene, venereal disease, birth control, fertility, and eugenics to envisage competing models of Irish identity, culture, and political community. Analyzing the work of canonical authors (Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien) and less often discussed figures (George Moore, Oliver Gogarty, Signe Toksvig, Kate O'Brien) in conversation with medical, scientific, and legal writing on sexual health, it charts how the medicalization and politicization of sex informed the emergence and development of modernism in Ireland. At the same time, by reading this literary material alongside the polemical and journalistic writing of figures such as Arthur Griffith, Maud Gonne, and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, it also reveals the ways in which key events in Irish cultural and political history - the Parnell Split, the Limerick Pogrom, the Playboy riots, the passage of the Censorship of Publications Act - were shaped by ongoing debates and dilemmas in the field of sexual health. This book will benefit students, researchers, and readers interested in the history of sex and its regulation in modern Ireland, the impact of sex and medicine on Irish political history, and the nature of modernism's engagement with sex, health, and the body.

Author : Mary P. Caulfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137362186

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Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination by Mary P. Caulfield Pdf

This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes an alternative and more comprehensive criterion of Irish theatre practices. These practices can be defined as the 'rejected', contested and undervalued plays and performativities that are integral to Ireland's political and cultural landscapes.

Author : James McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571266883

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More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett Pdf

His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world of Beckett's men and women. She lifted the lobster clear of the table. It had about thirty seconds to live. Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not.