Beckett in the 1990s
Author | : Marius Buning |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789051835663 |
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Author | : Marius Buning |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789051835663 |
Author | : Deirdre Bair |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : 0671691732 |
Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Author | : Marius Buning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789051833478 |
Author | : Christopher Ricks |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780192824073 |
Most people most of the time want to live for ever. But there is another truth; the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humour, the art of Samuel Beckett variously embodies this truth, this ancient enduring belief that it is better to be dead than alive, best of all never to have been born. Beckett is the supreme writer of an age which has created new possiblities and impossibilities even in the matter of death and its definition, an age of transplants and life-support. But howdoes a writer give life to dismay at life itself, to the not-simply-unwelcome encroachments of death? After all, it is for the life, the vitality, of their language that we value writers. As a young man, Beckett himself praised Joyce's words. `They are alive.' Beckett became himself as a writer when he realized in his very words a principle of death. In cliches, which are dead but won't lie down. In a dead language and its memento mori. In words which mean their own opposites, cleaving andcleaving. In the self-stultifying or suicidal turn, dubbed the Irish bull. In what Beckett called a syntax of weakness. This book explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of a great writer - the realizations of an Irishman who wrote in English and in French, two languages with different apprehensions of life and of death.
Author | : Christopher Ricks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Death in literature |
ISBN | : 9781383004137 |
Explores the relation between deep convictions about life or death and the incarnations which these take in the exact turns of the writer Samuel Beckett, the realizations of an Irishman who wrote in English and French, two languages with different apprehensions of life and of death.
Author | : Samuel Beckett |
Publisher | : London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter John Murphy |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781879751934 |
A survey of Beckett criticism in English, French and German. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is an important figure in 20th century literary history: his plays, such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame, have acquired a world-wide reputation, and his novels have proved important touchstones for the critical debates in contemporary literary theory. Born in Dublin, Beckett spent most of his writing life in France and wrote equally well in French and English; his German was also fluent, allowing him to direct hisown plays in German theatres. Any attempt to deal with Beckett must therefore consider the critical response his works have provoked in all three languages. A Critique of Beckett Criticism is the first attempt in book formto give a comprehensive survey of the history and scope of Beckett criticism in French, English, and German. Three parallel chapters examine the three major strands of Beckett criticism, retracing its development using a historical perspective and pointing out different trends, currents and fashions in opinion. Directions for further research are also suggested. P.J. MURPHY is a lecturer in contemporary British literature at the University College of the Cariboo, British Columbia; WERNER HUBER is a professor of English literature at Chemnitz University of Technology; ROLF BREUER is professor of English literature at the University of Paderborn; KONRAD SCHOELL is professor of French literature at the Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt.
Author | : James Beckett |
Publisher | : Edgewater Books Distribution |
Total Pages | : 1260 |
Release | : 1995-04 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780937424797 |
Author | : Kathryn White |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441112952 |
The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook. However, this book explores the idea of decay as the fundamental core of Beckett's work, dominating it thematically, linguistically and artistically. Kathryn White explores Beckett's representation of physical decay, mental and spiritual deterioration and finally the idea that 'decay' is to be found in language itself. This study explores the importance of both theme and form in Beckett's work and considers whether Beckett will, in future generations, be remembered both for his representation of existence and his innovations in language.
Author | : Daniela Caselli |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847796303 |
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett's work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett's fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett's published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). Through a close reading of Beckett's fiction and criticism, the book will argue that Dante is both assumed as an external source of literary and cultural authority in Beckett's work, and also participates in Beckett's texts' sceptical undermining of authority. Moreover, the book demonstrates that the many references to various 'Dantes' produce 'Mr Beckett' as the figure of the author responsible for such a remarkably interconnected oeuvre. The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon.