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Women in Samuel Beckett's Prose and Drama

Mary Bryden
Women in Samuel Beckett s Prose and Drama Book PDF

Author : Mary Bryden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000038777938

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Women in Samuel Beckett's Prose and Drama by Mary Bryden Pdf

This book is a study of the evolving role of women throughout Beckett's work. Beckett's early writing is structured upon very sharply defined gender polaritiesóobjects of alarm, lust, derision, or indifference. Beckett's shift from fiction to stage and media dramaógiving a voice to womenóunsettles this adversarial structure. In later prose and drama, gender qualifies Beckett's people for neither fear nor favor. Mary Bryden's analysis drawing on the insights of such French writers as Deleuze and Guattari, and Helene Cixous, traces how gender dualisms are undermined over the course of Beckett's writing career. She examines the status of sexual indeterminacy in Beckett's work, and concludes with a remarkable case study: that of the mother figure, whose profile alters from dread to tenderness. The book embraces not only Beckett's published prose and drama, but also a number of unpublished and draft manuscripts from Reading University's Beckett Archive. Women in Samuel Beckett's Prose and Drama, will be of great interest to Literary Studies courses in both French and English departments, and Women's Studies courses. Contents: Introduction; Space Invaders: Women of the Early Fiction; Beckett and Deleuze: Gender in Process; Undoing the "Not": Women of the Early Drama; "No Better than Shades No Worse": Women of the Later Drama; Nomad Selves: Women of the Later Prose; Otherhood/Motherhood/Smotherhood: The Mother in Beckett's Writing; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Women in Beckett

Linda Ben-Zvi
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Author : Linda Ben-Zvi
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252062566

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Women in Beckett by Linda Ben-Zvi Pdf

Twelve actresses from seven countries are interviewed about their experience of performing in plays by Samuel Beckett, including their physical and psychological preparation. An additional 19 essays explore critical themes relating to the plays as fiction, as fiction becoming drama, and as drama on stage, radio, and television. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dream of Fair to Middling Women

Samuel Beckett
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Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

P. McTighe
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Author : P. McTighe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137275332

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The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama by P. McTighe Pdf

Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other.

Beckett's Art of Salvage

Julie Bates
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Author : Julie Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107167049

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Beckett's Art of Salvage by Julie Bates Pdf

Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Charles A. Carpenter
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Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781441178527

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The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Charles A. Carpenter Pdf

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince
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Author : Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317885832

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Samuel Beckett by Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince Pdf

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.

Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

Anna McMullan
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Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000155372

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Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama by Anna McMullan Pdf

The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett’s drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett’s re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies

L. Oppenheim
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Author : L. Oppenheim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504622

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Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies by L. Oppenheim Pdf

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.

Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture

Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Gadda and Beckett Storytelling Subjectivity and Fracture Book PDF

Author : Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351191456

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Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture by Katrin Wehling-Giorgi Pdf

"While the writing of Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is renowned for its linguistic and narrative proliferation, the best-known works of Samuel Beckett (1906-89) are minimalist, with a clear fondness for subtraction and abstraction. Despite these face-value differences, a close reading of the two authors' early prose writings reveals some surprisingly affinitive concerns, rooted in their profoundly troubled relationship with the literary medium and an unceasing struggle for expression of an incoherent reality and a similarly unfathomable self. Situating Gadda and Beckett at the heart of the debate of late European modernism, this study not only contests the position of'insularity' frequently ascribed to both authors by critical consensus, but it also rethinks some of Gadda's plurilingual and macaronic features by situating them in the context of the turn-of-the-century Sprachkrise, or crisis of language. In a close analysis of the primary texts which engages with the latest findings in empirical research, Wehling-Giorgi casts fresh light on the central notions of textual and linguistic fragmentation and provides a new post-Lacanian analysis of the fractured self in Gadda's and Beckett's narrative."

No-thing is Left to Tell

John L. Kundert-Gibbs
No thing is Left to Tell Book PDF

Author : John L. Kundert-Gibbs
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
ISBN : 0838637620

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No-thing is Left to Tell by John L. Kundert-Gibbs Pdf

This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.

Samuel Beckett's Theatre

Katharine Worth
Samuel Beckett s Theatre Book PDF

Author : Katharine Worth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198187793

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Samuel Beckett's Theatre by Katharine Worth Pdf

The critical discussion highlights the unique fusion on Beckett's stage of cosmic scenery and humorous individualism."--Jacket.

Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

James Knowlson
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Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 50,5 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

_______________ 'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent 'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter's Proust and Richard Ellmann's Joyce in sensitivity and fascination' - Daily Telegraph 'It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives' - Evening Standard _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD PRIZE _______________ 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.

Samuel Beckett in Confinement

James Little
Samuel Beckett in Confinement Book PDF

Author : James Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350112346

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Samuel Beckett in Confinement by James Little Pdf

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett's work. Covering the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics. "James Little's Beckett in Confinement offers a brilliant analysis of the politics behind Beckett's production of closed space, both as a writer and as a director. It carefully examines the move from writing about closed space to creating an art of confinement. To argue that Beckett's use of confined space is central to the political dynamics of his works, James Little also superbly employs genetic criticism to open up the confined space of the published text and bring highly relevant draft materials back into the critical conversation." Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of Oxford, UK "The many characters Beckett invented share one characteristic: they are all imprisoned or trapped in some way, no matter where they are. Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space draws on untapped riches from Beckett's correspondence and the archives to reconsider the obsession with entrapment, coercion and detention central to Beckett's varied oeuvre. In this exciting and illuminating analysis, James Little offers a fresh and original reading of the work's ethical and political dimensions, and shows us why we need to stop thinking about confinement as a metaphysical metaphor." Emilie Morin, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York, UK "Little breaks new ground in this expansive investigation to explore how confinement is a central component of Beckett's political aesthetics ... The reader is guided by a crisp and easy style of writing as Little demonstrates a command of sources which are broad in scope, but negotiated to form a compelling and impactful study." Journal of Beckett Studies

Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland

Alan Graham,Scott Hamilton
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Author : Alan Graham,Scott Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.