Author : Conor Carville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108422772
This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.
Author : Michiko Tsushima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031083687
Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis. Responding to the post-catastrophic situations in the twentieth century, Beckett created characters who often seem to have been through an unknown catastrophe. Although the importance of catastrophe in Beckett has been noted sporadically, there has been no substantial attempt to discuss his aesthetics and work in relation to it. This collection will therefore serve as the first sustained study to explore the theme of catastrophe in Beckett and will be a highly significant contribution to Beckett studies. Chapter “Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Mel Gussow
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802137654
Rounding off the book are interviews with Beckett's chief collaborators and interpreters: among them Bert Lahr, Gogo in the first American Godot; Jack MacGowran and Billie Whitelaw, Beckett's own favorite actors; directors Mike Nichols and Deborah Warner; and Edward Beckett, his nephew and literary executor.
Author : Seán Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521111803
A volume of essays to provide compelling evidence of the continuing relevance of Ireland to Beckett's writing.
Author : Jürgen Siess
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 940121025X
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.’
Author : David Lloyd
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474415733
Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.
Author : Deirdre McFeely
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107007933
The first full critical study of Dion Boucicault, one of the most dynamic and influential figures in nineteenth-century theatre.
Author : Jane Moody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521039864
This book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.
Author : Karen Steele
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815631170
Women, Press, and Politics explores the literary and historical significance of women writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish revival, the advanced nationalist press. This work studies women’s writings in the Irish national tradition, focusing in particular on leading feminine voices in the cultural and political movements that helped launch the Eater Rising of 1916: Augusta Gregory, Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Constance Markievicz, Delia Larkin, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and Louie Bennett. Karen Steele argues that by examining the innovative work of these writers from the perspective of women’s artistry and women’s political investments, we can best appreciate the expansive range of their cultural productions and the influence these had on other nationalists, who went on to shape Irish politics and culture in the decades to come.
Author : Jane Milling
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1408157101
Modern British Playwriting: The 1980s equips readers with a fresh assessment of the theatre and principle playwrights and plays from a decade when political and economic forces were changing society dramatically. It offers a broad survey of the context and of the playwrights and companies such as Complicité and DV8 that rose to prominence at this time. Alongside this it provides a detailed examination based on fresh research of four of the most significant playwrights of the era and considers the influence they had on later work. The 1980s volume features a detailed study by four scholars of the work of four of the major playwrights who came to prominence: Howard Barker (by Sarah Goldingay), Jim Cartwright (David Lane), Sarah Daniels (Jane Milling) and Timberlake Wertenbaker (Sara Freeman). Essential for students of Theatre Studies, the series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced from the 1950s to 2009. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights besides other theatre work from that decade, together with an extensive commentary on the period. Readers will understand the works in their contexts and be presented with fresh research material and a reassessment from the perspective of the twenty-first century. This is an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1980s.
