Beckett Ongoing
Author : Michael Krimper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031420306
Since Beckett
Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441100679
Book Description
Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide array of guises, can be seen to emerge. Since Beckett looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited. In reading Beckett against the contemporary in this way, Peter Boxall offers both a compelling re-reading of Beckett, and a powerful new analysis of contemporary culture.
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
Author : David Houston Jones
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783838208497
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art-he is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. The volume explores Beckett's formal experiments in drama, prose, and other media as contemporary, parallel revisions of modernism's theoretical presuppositions congruent with trends like Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Containing interviews with and pieces by working artists, alongside contributions of scholars of literature and the visual arts, this collection offers an essential reassessment of Beckett's work. Perceiving Beckett's ongoing importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices, dominated by installation and conceptual strategies, it offers a completely new frame through which to read perennial Beckettian themes of impotence, failure, and penury. From Beckett's remains, as it were, contemporary artists find endless inspiration.
Beckett, Deleuze and Performance
Author : Daniel Koczy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3319956183
Book Description
This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Beckett’s theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuze’s philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance; the possibility of theatrical automation; and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Beckett’s later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuze’s conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence.
Samuel Beckett in Context
Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107017033
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.
Beckett and the Modern Novel
Author : John Bolin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107029848
Book Description
John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.
Beckett’s Masculinity
Author : J. Jeffers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230101461
Book Description
This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.
Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004468382
Book Description
Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.
Beckett and Ethics
Author : Russell Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441174206
Book Description
At first glance, Samuel Beckett's writing-where scenes of violence and cruelty often provide the occasion for an unremittingly bleak comedy-would seem to offer the reader few examples of ethical conduct. However, following the recent "ethical turn" in critical theory, there has been growing interest in the ethicality of Beckett's work. Following Alain Badiou's highly influential claim for Beckett as essentially an ethical thinker, it is time to ask: What is the relation between Beckett's work and the ethical? Is Beckett's work profoundly ethical in its implications, as both humanist and deconstructionist readings have insisted in their different ways? Or does Beckett's work in some way call into question the entire notion of the ethical? This provocative collection of essays seeks to map out this emerging debate in Beckett criticism. It will be a landmark contribution to an exciting new field, not only in Beckett Studies, but in literary studies and critical theory more broadly.
Beckett and Bion
Author : Ian Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 042991122X
Book Description
This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett's and Bion's radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The recent publication of Beckett's correspondence during the period of his psychotherapy with Bion provides a starting place for an imaginative reconstruction of this psychotherapy, culminating with Bion's famous invitation to his patient to dinner and a lecture by C.G. Jung. Following from the course of this psychotherapy, Miller and Souter trace the development of Beckett's radical use of clinical psychoanalytic method in his writing, suggesting the development within his characters of a literary-analytic working through of transference to an idealized auditor known by various names, apparently based on Bion. Miller and Souter link this pursuit to Beckett's breakthrough from prose to drama, as the psychology of projective identification is transformed to physical enactment.
