Beckett Et la Religion
Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Politics in literature
ISBN : 9789042014046
Beckett Dans L'histoire
Author : International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Conference
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789042017672
Book Description
Covers English literature, French literature, and theatre in the 20th century.
Beckett in the Cultural Field / Beckett dans le champ culturel
Author : Jürgen Siess
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 940121025X
Book Description
The thematic part of this volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui is devoted mainly to Beckett’s texts of the forties and later, and particularly to those he composed after his adoption of the French language. The essays presented in this part of the current issue attempt to see Beckett as a writer among other authors with whom he connects or competes, to examine his relations with artists, whether Beckett stimulates them or is stimulated by them, and to define his ‘posture’ and his position in the cultural field. How does the budding francophone writer position himself in the cultural field during his difficult beginnings and after his first successes? How can he be situated in relation to the three cultures he is dealing with? What are the parallels between Beckett’s own texts and those of other writers (literary and philosophical), but also between his work and the work of artists of the period? The ten essays in the free-space section of this volume also mainly concern his texts that were first written in French, and situate Beckett in relation to different topics, from Dante to the ‘War on Terror.’
Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice
Author : Llewellyn Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3838268199
Book Description
The voice traverses Beckett’s work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice’s multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject’s vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett’s work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.
Beckett and Religion
Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042013940
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath
Author : James McNaughton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192555499
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. Beckett comically embodies conservative religious and political doctrines; he plays Irish colonial history against contemporary European horrors; he examines aesthetic complicity in effecting atrocity and covering it up. This book offers insightful, original, and vivid readings of Beckett's work up to Three Novels and Endgame.
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 144118421X
Book Description
Beckett and Nothing
Author : Daniela Caselli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526146452
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Beckett and nothing invites its readership to understand the complex ways in which the Beckett canon both suggests and resists turning nothing into something by looking at specific, sometimes almost invisible ways in which ‘little nothings’ pervade the Beckett canon. The volume has two main functions: on the one hand, it looks at ‘nothing’ not only as a content but also a set of rhetorical strategies to reconsider afresh classic Beckett problems such as Irishness, silence, value, marginality, politics and the relationships between modernism and postmodernism and absence and presence. On the other, it focuses on ‘nothing’ in order to assess how the Beckett oeuvre can help us rethink contemporary preoccupations with materialism, neurology, sculpture, music and television. The volume is a scholarly intervention in the fields of Beckett studies which offers its chapters as case studies to use in the classroom. It will prove of interest to advanced students and scholars in English, French, Comparative Literature, Drama, Visual Studies, Philosophy, Music, Cinema and TV studies.
Samuel Beckett as World Literature
Author : Thirthankar Chakraborty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501358812
Book Description
The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel Prize winner who published and self-translated in both French and English across literary genres, Beckett is recognized on a global scale as a preeminent author and dramatist of the 20th century. Samuel Beckett as World Literature brings together a wide range of international contributors to share their perspectives on Beckett's presence in countries such as China, Japan, Serbia, India and Brazil, among others, and to flesh out Beckett's relationship with postcolonial literatures and his place within the 'canon' of world literature.
After Beckett
Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9789042019720
Book Description
This volume constitutes a collection of over 40 articles selected from contributions to the Sydney Symposium of January 2003 that - as a part of an International Sydney Festival - was one of the major events related to Samuel Beckett of the last decade. The three sections of the book reflect the most vibrant fields of research in Beckett studies today: Intertextuality and Theory, Philosophy and Theory and Textual Genesis, Contextual Genesis and Language. Scholars from all over the world participating in this collection testify to the durable and universal nature of interest in Beckett's work.
