Beckett A Guide For The Perplexed
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Beckett A Guide for the Perplexed
Author | : Jonathan Boulter |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441125989 |
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most important twentieth century writers. Seen as both a modernist and postmodernist, his work has influenced generations of playwrights, novelists and poets. Despite his notorious difficulty, Beckett famously refused to offer his readers any help in interpreting his work. Beckett's texts examine key philosophical-humanist questions but his writing is challenging, perplexing and often intimidating for readers. This guide offers students reading Beckett a clear starting point from which to confront some of the most difficult plays and novels produced in the twentieth century, texts which often appear to work on the very edge of meaninglessness. Beginning with a general introduction to Beckett, his work and its contexts, the guide looks at each of the major genres in turn, analyzing key works chronologically. It explains why Beckett's texts can seem so impenetrable and confusing, and focuses on key questions and issues. Giving an accessible account of both the form and content of Beckett's work, this guide will enable students to begin to come to grips with this fascinating but daunting writer.
Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett s Short Prose
Author | : Jonathan Boulter |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-12-19 |
Genre | : Human beings in literature |
ISBN | : 9781474430272 |
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Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.
Modernist Literature A Guide for the Perplexed
Author | : Peter Childs |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441190031 |
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A complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements, this book considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature in a clear, accessible manner.
Beckett s Breath
Author | : Goudouna Sozita Goudouna |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2018-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474421669 |
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Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism. Key FeaturesExamines Beckett's ultimate venture to define the borders between a theatrical performance and purely visual representationJuxtaposes Beckett's Breath with breath-related artworks by prominent visual artists who investigate the far-reaching potential of the representation of respiration by challenging modernist essentialismThe focus on this primary human physiological function and its relation to arts and culture is highly pertinent to studies of human performance, the nature of embodiment and its relation to cultural expressionFacilitates new intermedial discourses around the nature and aesthetic possibilities of breath, the minimum condition of existence, at the interface between the visual arts and performance practices and their relation to questions of spectacle, objecthood and materiality
The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film
Author | : Judith B. Kerman,John Edgar Browning |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786458745 |
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When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible? To respond meaningfully to the surreality of the Holocaust, writers must produce works of moral and emotional complexity. One way they have achieved this is through elements of fantasy. Covering a range of theoretical perspectives, this collection of essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed, as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983), Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil (1982), Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese's dark thriller Shutter Island (2010).
Figures of Radical Absence
Author | : Alexandra Irimia |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2023-10-02 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783111150703 |
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The Plays of Samuel Beckett
Author | : Katherine Weiss |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781408145579 |
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The Plays of Samuel Beckett provides a stimulating analysis of Beckett's entire dramatic oeuvre, encompassing his stage, radio and television plays. Ideal for students, this major study combines analysis of each play by Katherine Weiss with interveiws and essays from practitioners and scholars.
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author | : Charles A. Carpenter |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2011-10-13 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781441184214 |
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