Journal of Beckett Studies
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 270
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The New Samuel Beckett Studies
Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108471854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.
Journal of Beckett Studies
Author: James Knowlson
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Published: 1977-07
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780714536699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeckett and Phenomenology
Author: Ulrika Maude
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-07-09
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0826497144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work.
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath
Author: James McNaughton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0192555499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. Beckett comically embodies conservative religious and political doctrines; he plays Irish colonial history against contemporary European horrors; he examines aesthetic complicity in effecting atrocity and covering it up. This book offers insightful, original, and vivid readings of Beckett's work up to Three Novels and Endgame.
Beckett and Buddhism
Author: Angela Moorjani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1009021850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend of tears and laughter. Moorjani offers an in-depth elucidation of texts that are shown to intersect with the negative and paradoxical path of the Buddha, which she sets in dialogue with Western thinking. She brings further perspectives from cognitive philosophy and science to bear on creative emptiness, the illusory 'I', and Beckett's probing of the writing process. Readers will benefit from this far-reaching study of one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century who explored uncharted topologies in his fiction, theatre, and poetry.
Beckett and Modernism
Author: Olga Beloborodova
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-04-13
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 3319703749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre – encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film – as a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of ‘modernism after postmodernism’ in all its complexity, covering a broad range of topics spanning Beckett’s entire career. In addition to more thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett studies and modernism studies.
On Beckett
Author: S. E. Gontarski
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0857285807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century – countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. “On Beckett” brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett
Author: Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-19
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 110707519X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
Beckett/Philosophy
Author: Matthew Feldman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 383826701X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and a thematic conclusion.?S. E. Gontarski, Journal of Beckett StudiesThis is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to understand the relationship of Beckett's work to philosophy. It breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be understood philosophical.?Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney
