The Grove Companion To Samuel Beckett

Author : C. J. Ackerly,S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802199801

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The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett by C. J. Ackerly,S. E. Gontarski Pdf

The Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett is a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski, it is alphabetical, cross-referenced, and laid out in a very user-friendly format. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett provides an organized trove of information for students and scholars alike, and is a must for any serious reader of Beckett. As most Beckettians know, “reading [him] for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.” (Paul Auster)

Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405158695

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A Companion to Samuel Beckett by S. E. Gontarski Pdf

A collection of original essays by a team of leading Beckett scholars and two of his biographers, Companion to Samuel Beckett provides a comprehensive critical reappraisal of the literary works of Samuel Beckett. Builds on the resurgence of international Beckett scholarship since the centenary of his birth, and reflects the wealth of newly released archival sources Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates A valuable addition to contemporary Beckett scholarship, and testament to the enduring influence of Beckett’s work and his position as one of the most important literary figures of our time

Author : Chris Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571227384

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The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett by Chris Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski Pdf

'Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.' - Paul AusterThe Faber Companion is the most comprehensive reference to the ideas, characters, and life of Samuel Beckett. Alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced, it provides a wealth of information for all serious readers of Beckett.'Ackerley and Gontarski have amassed an amazing amount of information about Samuel Beckett and his works. The Faber Companion will prove useful to everyone - from the neophyte who seeks other work by Beckett to the seasoned Beckett scholar who is not necessarily an expert on the writer's use of astrology or zoology. In short, from A to Z, all readers of Beckett will be enriched.' - Ruby Cohn

Author : Chris Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802140491

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The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett by Chris Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski Pdf

From A to Z, this is an indispensable guide to the works, life, and thought of one of the most important writers of our time. The Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett was a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski, it is alphabetical, cross-referenced, and laid out in a very user-friendly format. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett provides an organized trove of information for students and scholars alike, and is a must for any serious reader of Beckett.

Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107017030

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Samuel Beckett in Context by Anthony Uhlmann Pdf

Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0802118313

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Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Author : Peter Fifield,David Addyman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408183618

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Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies by Peter Fifield,David Addyman Pdf

This text presents new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. It presents 10 research essays by international scholars ranging across Beckett's work, opening up new avenues of enquiry and association for scholars, students and readers of Beckett's work.

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 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.

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405156165

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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000 by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 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.

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 46,6 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

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.;James Knowlson is the general editor of "The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett".

Author : Enoch Brater
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408137239

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Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett by Enoch Brater Pdf

Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often suprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic.

Author : James McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Alan Graham,Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.