Review of Samuel Beckett, His Works and His Critics by Raymond Federman and John Fletcher
Author : James Knowlson
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : James Knowlson
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Raymond Federman
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Page : 385 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Raymond Federman
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Peter John Murphy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1994
Category : 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 : Nathalie Camerlynck
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1785277979
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist. Born in Paris in 1928, all of his immediate family perished in the Holocaust. Federman escaped thanks to his mother, who hid him in a closet. After the war, he migrated to America and devoted his life to scholarship and creative writing. In both, he devoted his life to Beckett. Federman’s creative and theoretical writings contaminate and pervert each other just as, in his novels, French contaminates English and fiction perverts reality. His work is centered on the details of his survival, enacting a perpetual return to the closet, as previous studies have demonstrated. By examining Beckettian (and by extension Joycean) intertextuality in the novels of Raymond Federman, this study traces the contours of a second closet.
Author : C. J. Ackerly
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802199805
The Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett is a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski, it is alphabetical, cross-referenced, and laid out in a very user-friendly format. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett provides an organized trove of information for students and scholars alike, and is a must for any serious reader of Beckett. As most Beckettians know, “reading [him] for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.” (Paul Auster)
Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 144118421X
Author : Gordon S. Armstrong
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780838751411
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 : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438433832
This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American novelist Raymond Federman's many contributions to humanities scholarship, including Holocaust studies, Beckett studies, translation studies, experimental fiction, postmodernism, and autobiography. Although known primarily as a novelist, Federman (1928–2009) is also the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. After emigrating to the United States in 1942 and receiving a Ph.D. in comparative literature at UCLA in 1957, he held professorships in the University at Buffalo's departments of French and English from 1964 to 1999. Together with Steve Katz and Ronald Sukenick, he was one of the original founders of the Fiction Collective, a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to avant garde, experimental prose. Far too many accounts treat Federman as merely a member of a small group of writers who pioneered "metafictional" or "postmodern" American literature. Federman's Fiction will introduce (or, for some, reintroduce) to the broader scholarly community a creative and daring thinker whose work is significant not just to considerations of the development of innovative fiction, but to a number of other distinct disciplines and emerging critical discourses.
Author : Eugene Webb
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295805285
In The Plays of Samuel Beckett Eugene Webb first summarizes the western philosophical tradition which has culminated in the void--the centuries of attempts to impose form and meaning on existence, the failure of which has left experience in fragments and man a stranger in an unintelligible universe. Succeeding chapters take up the plays work by work, interpreting each individually and tracing recurrent motifs, themes, and images to show the continuity in the underlying tendencies of Beckett's mind and art.