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Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471855
Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108456774
Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107075191
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
Author : L. Oppenheim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504622
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 : Peter Fifield,David Addyman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408183618
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 : Derval Tubridy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108483247
The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's prose and theatre.
Author : John Pilling
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441159472
An in-depth study of Samuel Beckett's first published book of fiction.
Author : Mark Nixon,Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441160027
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.
Author : James McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192555496
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 : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0814254020
Beckett's Happy Days: A Manuscript Study by S. E. Gontarski traces the development of Samuel Beckett's final two-act play, composed in English between October 1960 and May 1961, through annotated and bedoodled manuscript notebooks, holographs, and typescript drafts to the final published and performed text. The analysis details Beckett's most salient alterations and revisions, including his development of the work's tapestry of fragmented, half-remembered literary allusions. The current reissue of Beckett's Happy Days comes at a timely moment not only in Beckett studies but also in the general growth in programs of book history and digital humanities. Gontarski's study is not just a look back to origins. It traces an arc of research that developed over forty years as the Samuel Beckett archive at the University of Reading matured, as the fields of genetic and textual research grew, and as book history reemerged on a grand, international scale. In this timeframe, the Beckett Digital Manuscript and Library Projects responded to interest in Beckett studies and archival studies, taking textual production, genetic study, and book history into the twenty-first century with their emphasis on electronic access and digital collation. At The Ohio State University, the Rare Books and Manuscripts archive held papers central to Gontarski's study. Beckett's Happy Days is thus a fundamental, even seminal, part of that forty-year scholarly trajectory, and in its current edition, is readily accessible to individual students and scholars alike.
Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813011973
For fifteen years the journal of Beckett Studies attracted (and maintained the loyalty of) superb Beckett scholars. Because of the journal's irregular publication schedule, however, back issues of the original series are virtually impossible to come by. This collection makes available for the first time in book form those essays of exceptional merit that have never been reprinted. Samuel Beckett is one of the stellar figures in post-World War II English and European literature. This collection contains fresh perspectives on such fundamental themes in his work as the idea of the "absurd," the Manichean tension of light and dark, and the Cartesian split of mind and body, self and other. Specific essays offer, for instance, an existential reading of the short mime Act Without Words, I; an analysis of the Jungian libido operating in the novel Molloy; a study of Beckett's play with language in the radio play Embers; and a critique of a central question in Beckett studies, his relationship to the philosophical tradition of solipsism. In 1992, Florida State University made a commitment to regular publication of the JBS in a new series under S. E. Gontarski's editorship. This collection offers important essays from the first phase of the journal (1976-91).
Author : Paul Stewart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401203418
Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett’s Disjunctions is a valuable, and very readable, addition to Beckett studies. From Dream of Fair to Middling Women to How It Is, the book traces the modes of disjunction Beckett employed in his effort to “eff the ineffable”. From the comic incongruities of Watt to the ontological gaps of The Unnammable, Zone of Evaporation demonstrates the crucial and consistent role disjunction played in Beckett’s novels. The book describes Beckett’s divergence from Proustian metaphor and the revelation of the “real” towards an art which exploited the gaps and fissures within language and narrative and, ultimately, to an art which would go on to upset the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida. For those coming fresh to the works, Zone of Evaporation, written with an eye on the comic instincts of Beckett, provides almost a disjunctive guide to Beckett’s early and mid-period novels. To the seasoned Beckett reader, Zone of Evaporation offers an engaging, and challenging, new perspective on Beckett’s aesthetic practice.
Author : Angela Moorjani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009010913
Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend of tears and laughter. Moorjani offers an in-depth elucidation of texts that are shown to intersect with the negative and paradoxical path of the Buddha, which she sets in dialogue with Western thinking. She brings further perspectives from cognitive philosophy and science to bear on creative emptiness, the illusory 'I', and Beckett's probing of the writing process. Readers will benefit from this far-reaching study of one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century who explored uncharted topologies in his fiction, theatre, and poetry.
Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857285805
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century – countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. “On Beckett” brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.
Author : S. E. Gontarski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501337642
Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism. Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to “find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography,” his battles with the Lord Chamberlain in the mid-1950s over London stagings of his first two plays, and his close professional and personal associations with publishers who celebrated the work of the demimonde. Much of that term encompasses an opening to the fullness of human experience denied in previous centuries, and much of that has been sexual or decadent. As Gontarski shows, the aesthetics that emerges from such early career encounters and associations continues to inform Beckett's work and develops into experimental modes that upend literary models and middle-class values, an aesthetics that, furthermore, has inspired any number of visual artists to re-vision Beckett.