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 | : James Beckett |
Publisher | : Edgewater Books Distribution |
Total Pages | : 1260 |
Release | : 1995-04 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780937424797 |
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 | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Most people want to live forever. But there is another truth: the longing for oblivion. With pain, wit, and humor, 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 possibilities and impossibilities even in the matter of death and its definition--an age of transplants and life-support. But how does a writer give life to dismay at life itself, to the not unwelcome encroachments of death, when it is for the life, the vitality of their language that we value writers? Beckett became himself as a writer when he realized in his very words a principle of death: in clichés, which are dead but won't lie down; in a dead language and its memento mori; in words which mean their own opposites, like cleaving; and in what Beckett called a syntax of weakness. This artful study 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 | : Wimbush Andy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3838213696 |
In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.
Author | : Beckett Media |
Publisher | : Beckett Media |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-02-19 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781953801005 |
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Author | : Marius Buning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789051833478 |
Author | : Bo Jackson |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780385416207 |
Biography of a ball player.
Author | : James Beckett |
Publisher | : House of Collectibles |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1995-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780876379813 |
Joe Montana is one of the greatest quarterbacks the world has ever known. And Beckett Great Sports Heroes: Joe Montana pays fitting tribute to this athlete with the rapid-fire moves and the arm of steel. From his early days with Notre Dame where he showed the dedication, persistence, and courage that would earn him the title "the Comeback Kid" to his selection by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1979 NFL draft... From his rise to stardom in four Superbowls to the heart-stopping rally in Superbowl XXIII now known simply as The Drive... From his 1986 back surgery to the elbow injury that forced him to miss two full seasons to his triumphant return to the top of his game with the Kansas City Chiefs, and his retirement in 1995... Lavishly illustrated in full color, each Beckett Great Sports Heroes volume features distinguished sports authorities assessing the career of one of the greatest athletes of our time. Each book is a piece of history, a celebration of a sports legend.... BECKETT GREAT SPORTS HEROES Collect the series--your own personal Hall of Fame.