Author : P. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230339271
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 : James Baxter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030815722
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Beckett’s dissemination in America, following the author’s long-standing relationship with the countercultural magazine Evergreen Review and its dramatic role in redrawing the possibilities of American culture in the 1960s. While Beckett would be largely removed from his American context, this book follows his vigorous, albeit sometimes awkward, reception alongside the authors and institutions central to shaping his legacies in 20th and 21st century America.
Author : David Tucker
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9401211639
Author : Anthony Cordingley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474440622
A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiques.
Author : () (Meadhbh) Houston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192889516
Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives from Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social History of Medicine, it traces the ways in which authors, politicians, and activists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland harnessed debates over sexual hygiene, venereal disease, birth control, fertility, and eugenics to envisage competing models of Irish identity, culture, and political community. Analyzing the work of canonical authors (Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien) and less often discussed figures (George Moore, Oliver Gogarty, Signe Toksvig, Kate O'Brien) in conversation with medical, scientific, and legal writing on sexual health, it charts how the medicalization and politicization of sex informed the emergence and development of modernism in Ireland. At the same time, by reading this literary material alongside the polemical and journalistic writing of figures such as Arthur Griffith, Maud Gonne, and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, it also reveals the ways in which key events in Irish cultural and political history - the Parnell Split, the Limerick Pogrom, the Playboy riots, the passage of the Censorship of Publications Act - were shaped by ongoing debates and dilemmas in the field of sexual health. This book will benefit students, researchers, and readers interested in the history of sex and its regulation in modern Ireland, the impact of sex and medicine on Irish political history, and the nature of modernism's engagement with sex, health, and the body.
Author : N. Bianchini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137439866
A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century.
Author : P. Fifield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137319240
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Author : James Brophy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009222546
The first book-length study of Samuel Beckett's complete poetry, combining new work from major literature critics and new critical perspectives.
Author : Marc Farrant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350165964
Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee's oeuvre. Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee's early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence. Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggests that a literary engagement with the past is crucial to a recovery of culture in the present.
Author : William Davies
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030471101
This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens: it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett’s life, his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett’s work is not only ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader relationships between literature, culture and politics.
