Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. — 244 p. — ISBN10: 071906421X; ISBN13: 978-0719064210. This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett's television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual...
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2011. ― 208 p. ― (Diaries, Letters and Essays). ― ISBN: 978-1-4081-3723-9. Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0719071569; ISBN13: 978-0719071560. Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first study in English on the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 332 p. This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 332 p. This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 256 p. — (Other Becketts). — ISBN 978-1-4744-6299-0, 978-1-4744-6301-0. Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency. Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60’s and 80’s. The first study of...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016 — ISBN10: 0674504852; ISBN13: 978-0674504851. Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett’s novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. His works...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 206 p. — ISBN10: 1137294078; ISBN13: 978-1137294074. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative,...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 226 p. — ISBN10: 1137014350; ISBN13: 978-1137014351. An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event – itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 074867568X; ISBN13: 978-0748675685. The 35 original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Beckett's work world-wide. As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science,...
London: Anthem Press, 2012 — 350 p. — ISBN10: 0857286633; ISBN13: 978-0857286635. “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 –...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 — 328 p. — ISBN10: 1474216838; ISBN13: 978-1474216838. At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. — 510 p. — ISBN10: 9042037784; ISBN13: 978-9042037786. Samuel Beckett produced some of the most powerful writing - some of the funniest but most devastating - of the twentieth century. He described his plays, prose and poetry as 'an unnecessary stain on the silence', but the extraordinary combination of concision and richness in his writing stems from...
New York: Continuum, 2011. — 226 p. — ISBN10: 1441123172; ISBN13: 978-1441123176. Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition. This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines the...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 152 p. This book is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It provides biographical and contextual information, but more fundamentally, it considers how we might think about an enduringly diYcult and experimental novelist and playwright who often challenges the very...
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0-472-11117-5. The Painted Word examines Samuel Beckett's relationship with the visual arts, in an effort to shed new light on the author's work and on his thinking on aesthetics. Lois Oppenheim argues that Beckett was a profoundly visual artist whose work reflects a preoccupation with the visual as a paradigm...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. — 296 p. — (Faux Titre; 450) Longuement, la question de la productivité du mouvement surréaliste français sur l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett fut débattue, polarisée entre rejet et acceptation péremptoire. Cette possible influence trouve un point d’appui important dans Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme, découvrant une œuvre faite de reprises...
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2008 — 246 p. — ISBN10: 1433102862; ISBN13: 978-1433102868. The Metaphysical Vision: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Art and Life and Samuel Beckett’s Own Way to Make Use of It expands upon the ideas and theories set forth in the author’s Die eigentlich metaphysische Tätigkeit: Über Schopenhauers Ästhetik und ihre Anwendung durch Samuel...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 9042037768; ISBN13: 978-9042037762. 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...
Из серии: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-first Century (Новые интерпретации Беккетта в 21-м веке). Секс и эстетика в произведениях Беккетта. Палгрейв Макмиллан, 2011. 239 стр. Язык английский. Сэмюэл Беккет (1906—1989) — ирландский писатель. Один из основоположников (наряду с Эженом Ионеско) театра абсурда. Лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1969 года. Писал...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 9042035234; ISBN13: 978-9042035232. Samuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett’s works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found suffering in human life inevitable, accepted it as a source of inspiration in his writings, and probed...
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 9042038802; ISBN13: 978-9042038806. Collection of essays by different authors on three of Beckett's works. some essays in French. Revisiting Molloy, Malone meurt / Malone Dies and L’Innommable / The Unnamable “Introduction: “No One Wanders Unpunished”: Revisiting Molloy, Malone Meurt / Malone Dies and L’Innommable / The Unnamable”,...
Antwerp: Uitgeverij UPA University Press, 2011 — 152 p. — ISBN10: 9054879122; ISBN13: 978-9054879121. Part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), this account is an examination of Samuel Beckett’s writing, tracing his creative process and reconstructing the genesis of his bilingual works. Analyzing notes, manuscripts, and typescripts, it reconstructs the dynamics of...
Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V.Editions, 1994 — 150 p. — ISBN10: 9051835868; ISBN13: 978-905183586. Samuel Beckett's exploration of film and television roughly spanned the last two decades of his life. His first experiments with the visual arts (as distinct from his critical essays on modern painters) originated in 1963 when he wrote a non-verbal project which he simply called Film....
Составление, пер. с англ. и φρ., послесловие и примечания М. Дадяна. — М.: Текст, 2009. — 192 с. Впервые вниманию читателя предлагается сборник эссе и критических работ великого ирландско-французского писателя, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе Сэмюэля Беккета. Известно, что за всю жизнь Беккет не дал ни одного интервью, а его эссеистика невелика по объему, и только в...
М.: Текст, 2009. — 192 с. — ISBN 978-5-7516-0717-3. Впервые вниманию читателя предлагается сборник эссе и критических работ великого ирландско-французского писателя, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе Сэмюэля Беккета. Известно, что за всю жизнь Беккет не дал ни одного интервью, а его эссеистика невелика по объему, и только в этих небольших вещах сколько-нибудь...
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