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The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110707519X
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
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File Size : 28,75 MB
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Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521424134
The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book.
Author : Ronan McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0511345887
This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. This book provides biographical and contextual information, but more fundamentally, it also considers how we might think about an enduringly difficult and experimental novelist and playwright who often challenges the very concepts of meaning and interpretation. It deals with his life, intellectual and cultural background, plays, prose, and critical response and relates Beckett's work and vision to the culture and context from which he wrote. McDonald provides a sustained analysis of the major plays, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days and his major prose works including Murphy, Watt and his famous 'trilogy' of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable). This introduction concludes by mapping the huge terrain of criticism Beckett's work has prompted, and it explains the turn in recent years to understanding Beckett within his historical context.
Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521886090
Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.
Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052185444X
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521679961
This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521515041
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.
Author : John Pilling
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2012
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The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book.
Author : Gerald Dawe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108420354
A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.