Beckett's afterlives
Beckett's afterlives

Author: Jonathan Bignell

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2023-02-21

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1526153785

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Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. The collection employs interrelated concepts of adaptation, remediation and appropriation to reflect on Beckett’s own evolving approach to crossing genre boundaries and to analyse the ways in which contemporary artists across different media and diverse cultural contexts – including the UK, Europe, the USA and Latin America – continue to engage with Beckett. The book offers fresh insights into how his work has kept inspiring both practitioners and audiences in the twenty-first century, operating through methodologies and approaches that aim to facilitate and establish the study of modern-day adaptations, not just of Beckett but other (multimedia) authors as well.

Back to the Present, Forward to the Past
Back to the Present, Forward to the Past

Author: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Conference

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9789042020375

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The island of Ireland, north and south, has produced a great diversity of writing in both English and Irish for hundreds of years, often using the memories embodied in its competing views of history as a fruitful source of literary inspiration. Placing Irish literature in an international context, these two volumes explore the connection between Irish history and literature, in particular the Rebellion of 1798, in a more comprehensive, diverse and multi-faceted way than has often been the case in the past. The fifty-three authors bring their national and personal viewpoints as well as their critical judgements to bear on Irish literature in these stimulating articles. The contributions also deal with topics such as Gothic literature, ideology, and identity, as well as gender issues, connections with the other arts, regional Irish literature, in particular that of the city of Limerick, translations, the works of Joyce, and comparisons with the literature of other nations. The contributors are all members of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures). Back to the Present: Forward to the Past. Irish Writing and History since 1798 will be of interest to both literary scholars and professional historians, but also to the general student of Irish writing and Irish culture.

Aesthetic Afterlives
Aesthetic Afterlives

Author: Andrew Eastham

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0826443982

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An original theoretical reading of the emergence of British literary modernity, beginning with Victorian Aestheticism and tracing its afterlives into the 21st Century. >

The Afterlives of Roland Barthes
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes

Author: Neil Badmington

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1474297463

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Roland Barthes – the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes' Mourning Diary, the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime.

Afterlives of Abandoned Work
Afterlives of Abandoned Work

Author: Matthew Harle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-12-27

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1501339443

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Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection letter, a disagreement with a collaborator, or the simple act of walking away from one's desk-can change the way we think about cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Over five distinct journeys through a variety of archives, from major research libraries to the unique collections of individual enthusiasts, Matthew Harle draws surprising connections between literary studies, media studies, and visual arts, exploring unfinished projects from Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark, B.S. Johnson, Harold Pinter, and others. Rooted in literary criticism, Afterlives of Abandoned Work reads unbuilt buildings, unfilmed screenplays, and unpublished novels and radio sketches as forms of text that can help us consider the enduring fragmentation and anecdotal construction of cultural form, as well as expand literary criticism's approach to the archive.

Journey Through the Afterlife
Journey Through the Afterlife

Author: John H. Taylor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780674057500

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With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.

The Afterlife of Emerson Tang
The Afterlife of Emerson Tang

Author: Paula Champa

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0547792786

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A driving, panoramic novel of four strangers whose personal struggles with grief become interconnected through their quest to reunite the body and engine of a vintage car.

The Crimean War and its Afterlife
The Crimean War and its Afterlife

Author: Lara Kriegel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1108842224

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Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.

Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

Author: Alice Bennett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-06

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1137022698

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Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .

Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture

Author: Paige Reynolds

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2016-09-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1783085746

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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.