Elements in Beckett Studies – serie
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24 produkter
Beckett and Derrida
Häftad, 2024
324 kr
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Uncannily similar projects, Beckett's and Derrida's oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers whose main language of expression was 'adopted' or 'imposed', this Element proposes a …
Absorption and Theatricality
On Ghost Trio
Häftad, 2022
354 kr
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Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It is also the play that most clearly demonstrates Beckett's imaginative and aesthetic engagement with the visual arts and the history of painting in particular. Drawing on the work of Stanley Cavell …
Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism
Av Shane Weller
Häftad, 2021
354 kr
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Drawing on evidence from his published works, manuscripts, and correspondence, Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism explores Beckett's engagement with the theme of cultural nationalism throughout his writing life, revealing the various ways in which he sought to challenge culturally nationalist …
Pilgrim's Gress: The Beckett Walk
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a material practice. The walk begins as a motif, becomes a rhythm, expands into a compositional principle, and culminates in an ontology -- a defining means by …
Bad Godots
'Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other Interventions
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. Such a process challenges the autonomy of the artwork and authorial integrity. The primary focus of this Element is …
Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality rethinks the role of gender politics in the oeuvre, demonstrates Beckett's historical importance in the development of the 'antisocial thesis' in queer theory, and shows the work's attachment to sexuality as temporarily consolatory but ultimately …
Beckett and Cioran
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element discusses the association between Samuel Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Certain of Cioran's key …
Beckett and Leopardi
Av Peter Boxall, Peter Nicholls
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he …
Bad Godots
'Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other Interventions
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This Element focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. Such a process challenges the autonomy of the artwork and authorial integrity. The primary focus of this Element is …
Quotidian Beckett
Art of Everyday Life
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, …
Quotidian Beckett
Art of Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, …
Beckett and Derrida
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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Uncannily similar projects, Beckett's and Derrida's oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers whose main language of expression was 'adopted' or 'imposed', this Element proposes a …
Beckett and Cioran
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This Element discusses the association between Samuel Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Certain of Cioran's key …
Pilgrim's Gress: The Beckett Walk
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a material practice. The walk begins as a motif, becomes a rhythm, expands into a compositional principle, and culminates in an ontology -- a defining means by …
Beckett and Leopardi
Av Peter Boxall, Peter Nicholls
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett to argue that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers' pessimism. The authors suggest that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he …
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Av Emilie Morin
Häftad, 2025
324 kr
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Little has been written about Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900-1989). As Samuel Beckett's lifelong companion, she found herself in a peculiar quandary, owing to the amounts of support required by Beckett's unease with success and with the business of writing, and owing to her deep …
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Av Emilie Morin
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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Little has been written about Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900-1989). As Samuel Beckett's lifelong companion, she found herself in a peculiar quandary, owing to the amounts of support required by Beckett's unease with success and with the business of writing, and owing to her deep …
Postcognitivist Beckett
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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The aim of this Element is to offer a reassessment of Beckett's alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition - a cluster of present-day philosophical theories that question the mind's brain-bound nature and see cognition primarily as a process of interaction between …
Beckett and Sade
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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Much has been written on Beckett and Sade, yet nothing systematic has been produced. This Element is systematic by adopting a chronological order, which is necessary given the complexity of Beckett's varying assessments of Sade. Beckett mentioned Sade early in his career, with Proust as a first …
Experimental Beckett
Contemporary Performance Practices
Av Nicholas E. Johnson, Jonathan Heron
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett? Beckett's own tendencies toward fluidity of genre, iteration/repetition, and collaboration - modes that also define the 'experimental' - allow for greater …
Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination
Av Mark Byron
Häftad, 2020
354 kr
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Samuel Beckett's Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett's prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett's texts in surprisingly varied ways. By deploying figures of …
Beckett's Intermedial Ecosystems
Closed Space Environments across the Stage, Prose and Media Works
Häftad, 2021
354 kr
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This Element draws on the concept of ecosystems to investigate selected Beckett works across different media which present worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation: rather Beckett's human figures are trapped in a regulated system in which they have little …
Carnivals of Ruin
Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form
Häftad, 2023
324 kr
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Beckett's work is somewhat out of step with the logic of commemoration and celebration. Festival, with its association with celebration, spectacle, and publicity, would not seem the ideal vehicle for Beckett's work. Yet that work has become highly festivalised, and the incongruities between it and …
Beckett and Stein
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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What motivated Beckett, in 1937, to distance himself from the 'most recent work' of his mentor James Joyce, and instead praise the writings of Gertrude Stein as better reflecting his 'very desirable literature of the non-word'? This Element conducts the first extended comparative study of Stein's …
