Raymond Federman and John Fletcher
Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Nathalie Camerlynck
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 16,38 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 : James Knowlson
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107017033
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.
Author : David Tucker
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9401211639
Author : Yudit Kiss
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9633867258
More Nights Than Days is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust—including Roma and Sinti victims—and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a range of coping techniques adults don't possess. This overview of writings of ninety-one child survivors bears evidence from a wide range of human ruthlessness. The author presents little-known texts along with famous memoirs and autobiographical fiction, with abundant quotations. Many of these are not only compelling as historical testimony, but poetic and stirringly expressive. Yudit Kiss has not written a historical study or literary criticism of the children’s books. She explores, instead, what the authors went through and what they felt and understood about their experience. An accessible and captivating reading, this volume presents a close-up, human size dimension of the destruction. The books written by child survivors also describe the resources and means that helped them to remain human even in the deepest well of inhumanity, offering precious lessons about resistance and resilience.M
Author : Sara Greaves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316516415
Drawing on research by French authors, this book introduces a major new concept, the (M)other tongue, and shows its relevance to language learning and pediatrics in a multicultural society. It is for students and lecturers in languages, linguistics, translation studies and education, and for child psychologists, psychiatrists and speech therapists.
Author : Frederick Busi
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0813183995
Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky—the bizarre names stand out strangely against the bare-bones landscape of Waiting for Godot. In an intriguing new study of one of the most haunting plays of this century, Frederick Busi shows that these names serve important dramatic functions, reinforcing the changing roles assumed by the mysterious characters in their tortuous search for—and avoidance of—self. Busi also explores Beckett's convoluted literary relationship with James Joyce, especially as revealed in the plays-within-the-play and verbal jigh jinks of Finnegan's Wake, where, as in Godot, the same characters keep dreamily encountering themselves in different disguises, under shifting names. Beckett's strong affinities with Cervantes and the common debt of these two authors to the traditions of commedia dell'arte lead Busi to important insights into the shifting master-slave relationship so prominent in Godot, as in Don Quixote. The religious implications of Godot—the subject of so much critical debate—are placed in a new perspective by Busi's provocative observation that certain early Christian heretical works and certain books of the Apocrypha contain not only the idea of the Devil/God, Judas/Jesus identifications implied in Godot but also a number of names that Beckett seems to have had in mind when he wrote his play. Rich in linguistic, historical, and psychological learning, Busi's examination of the names in Godot leads the reader to a fuller awareness of Beckett's extraordinarily complex imagination. As Wylie Sypher writes in the foreword, the book is "an invitation to expand our reading of Beckett in many directions."
Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042023015
Contains three sections: Beckett and Romanticism, the conference proceedings of Beckett at Reading 2006, and a collection of miscellaneous essays. This title presents contributions on Beckett's attitudes toward Romantic aesthetics in general. It reflects the importance of the Beckett Foundation's Archive to scholars.
Author : C. J. Ackerly
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 13,1 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)