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| Author | : Christopher Ricks |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780192824073 |
Download Beckett's Dying Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Samuel Beckett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 886 |
| Release | : 2011-09-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521867948 |
Download The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 866 |
| Release | : 2009-02-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521867931 |
Download The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Gordon S. Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780838751411 |
Download Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In contrast to the many critics who consider W. B. Yeats a dominant influence on Beckett's drama, this study demonstrates that the two are almost diametrically opposed in their theater and that the real bridge to Beckett's art is to be found in the narrative and pictorial creations of the younger Yeats brother, Jack.
| Author | : David Kleinberg-Levin |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2015-07-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1474216889 |
Download Beckett's Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.
| Author | : Rhys Tranter |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2018-02-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3838210352 |
Download Beckett’s Late Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beckett’s Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate’s post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close-readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett’s prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett’s live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett’s Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.
| Author | : Enoch Brater |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2013-06-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1408137232 |
Download Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often surprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic. 'An eloquent, witty and erudite collection of essays that illuminates Beckett's drama and prose fiction from a number of complementary perspectives. Brater's precise explication of the interwoven tropes of language and mise-en-scène is combined with a fine grasp of the overarching structure of work ... to create a rich and suggestive series of reflections on Beckett's aesthetics.' - Robert Gordon, Professor of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London
| Author | : Samuel Beckett |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2007-12-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0802198449 |
Download Collected Poems in English and French Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
| Author | : Charles A. Carpenter |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 525 |
| Release | : 2011-10-13 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 144118421X |
Download The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Lois Oppenheim |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780472111176 |
Download The Painted Word Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression
