The Letters Of Samuel Beckett Volume 1 1929 1940

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867932

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett Pdf

The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of literature and theater. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theater this edition is essential reading, offering not only a record of Beckett's achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521867940

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: by Samuel Beckett Pdf

This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays - most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and his response to such fame. The volume provides detailed introductions which discuss Beckett's situation during the War and his crucial move into the French language, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Letters of Samuel Beckett
Page : 3200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1316506576

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett 4 Volume Hardback Set by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Author : Dirk Van Hulle,Mark Nixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Gordon Gillespie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442263055

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Historical Dictionary of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Gordon Gillespie Pdf

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Northern Ireland Conflict provides an accessible and comprehensive study of the conflict and peace process in Northern Ireland from the 1960s to 2016. The second edition of the book expands on the references relating to individuals, organizations and events of the Northern Ireland Troubles and adds material on significant subsequent developments. This the work provides a unique view of developments since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. While widely heralded as the end of the Northern Ireland conflict the agreement instead witnessed the beginning of a new series of political difficulties to be addressed. The Historical Dictionary of the Northern Ireland Conflict is the first significant reference work to examine many of the issues related to political and cultural conflicts and dealing with the past which have grown in intensity since 1998. Many of these themes will be relevant to students of post-conflict societies in other areas of the world. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Historical Dictionary of the Northern Ireland Conflict contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192858733

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Samuel Beckett by Rosemarie Bodenheimer Pdf

A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett. After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may not be familiar with Beckett's novels and stories. She follows his trajectory from the first unpublished novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, through the great post-war trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and on to the ever more experimental inventions in the shorter, later fictions, and monologues. Through readings of his work alongside extracts from his published correspondence, Beckett emerges as a sympathetic human figure, a poet of productive doubt, and a brilliant stylist of mood changes and second thoughts. Bodenheimer considers Beckett's treatments of memory, nostalgia, and grief, and the forms he finds to convey those essential human experiences while avoiding melodrama or sentimentality. His dramatized relationship with his own writing is a crucial part of that emotional landscape. His playful jousts with the conventions of novel-writing show how, from the start, Beckett challenged the notion of character and other inherited novel conventions. The book also emphasizes his dismantling of the autobiographical I his moving narratives of attachment and loss, and the inimitable mixture of comedy and pathos he creates by inventing outlandish situations to which his characters respond in very recognizable human ways.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781473547476

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Late Essays by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer Late Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee’s literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee’s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy’s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto.

Author : Alan Graham,Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Sheri Dion
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781575911502

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French XX Bibliography, Issue #62 by Sheri Dion Pdf

Author : Peter Fifield,David Addyman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Murray Rachel Murray
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474458221

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Modernist Exoskeleton by Murray Rachel Murray Pdf

Argues for the importance of insects to modernism's formal innovationsUses the idea of the insect as a key to modernist writers' engagement with questions of politics, psychology, life, and literary formProvides in-depth analysis of lesser-known modernist narratives, such as H.D.'s Asphodel and Lewis's Snooty Baronet, as well as new readings of canonical texts - including D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Samuel Beckett's TrilogyExplores the influence of popular scientific writing on modernist aestheticsReveals the attentiveness of modernist writers to nonhuman life, thus forging new lines of connection between modernism and literary animal studiesFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body - its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism's engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Creation
ISBN : 0714540064

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Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Author : Conor Carville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108422772

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Samuel Beckett and the Visual by Conor Carville Pdf

This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472527370

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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.