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Author | : L. Oppenheim |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2004-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230504620 |
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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 | : Jean-Michel Rabaté |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108593003 |
Download The New Samuel Beckett Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection explains developments within Beckett studies and why he has emerged as one of the most iconic writers of the twentieth century. It also proposes a new interpretive framework that explores both the expanded canon, which has doubled the volume of his works in the last ten years, and the new methods used to approach it. This book covers all the most recent approaches to the Beckett study, such as archival research, queer theory, mathematical readings of literature, neuro-scientific approaches, translation studies, and disability studies. These new approaches are shown to be relevant and necessary to provide a renewed understanding of the lasting value of Beckett's works.
Author | : Seán Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010-02-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521111803 |
Download Beckett and Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A volume of essays to provide compelling evidence of the continuing relevance of Ireland to Beckett's writing.
Author | : J. Pilling |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2006-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230504833 |
Download A Samuel Beckett Chronology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work, with full details of how, when and where each work by him came to be written, many details of which have only recently come to light and are often not known to scholars working in the field.
Author | : Dirk Van Hulle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2015-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316240649 |
Download The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett studies today. This Companion considers Beckett's lasting significance by addressing a host of relevant topics. Written by a team of renowned scholars, this volume presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism, intertextuality, late modernism, history, philosophy, ethics, body and mind. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments in Beckett studies while prompting further exploration, assisted by the guide to further reading.
Author | : Katherine Weiss |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408145588 |
Download The Plays of Samuel Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work. Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett's vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series it features too a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students' own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett's work.
Author | : John Bolin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107029848 |
Download Beckett and the Modern Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.
Author | : S. E. Gontarski |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1501337653 |
Download Revisioning Beckett Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : P. Stewart |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230339271 |
Download Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.
Author | : Harry Eiss |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2016-05-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 144389429X |
Download The Joker Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To prepare for the role of the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel room, trying to understand and become a character he saw as “an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown” who was not intimidated by anything and found all of life “a big joke.” In the end, Ledger’s obsession with his role contributed to his own death from drugs before The Dark Knight was released. The connections and irony are too close to ignore. The movie gives the world a curious twist on the roles of Batman and the Joker. It’s politically incorrect, and yet emotionally the Joker’s insanity becomes more endearing than Batman’s noble sacrifice. What is it? Why does this psychopath seem to have a sense of higher truths in his insanity? This is the role of the Joker or the Fool, a standard character in theatre, and a role consciously adopted by serious artists since the late 1800s. Just as Shakespeare’s Fool in King Lear used his riddles and puns and satire to reveal the truths the royal leaders of his world could not or refused to see, today’s artists are both revealing the darkness within the culture and offering a way out. Waiting for Godot has been proclaimed the greatest play of the twentieth century. But there are no great roles in it, no characters representing the equivalent of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rather, the two main characters are closer to T. S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock, who says he cannot be a Hamlet, only, perhaps, Hamlet’s Fool. This book explores what has happened as Europe’s culture fragmented and the world lost its center. It explores a range of different arenas, from political and social and religious happenings to scientific and artistic expressions, in order to find the centers of the human condition and how the dark expressions of meaninglessness so commonly highlighted are more rites-of-passage than the final destination.