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Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work
Av P. Stewart
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual …
Beckett’s Masculinity
Av J. Jeffers
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.
Samuel Beckett
History, Memory, Archive
Av S. Kennedy, K. Weiss
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett as a figure that cannot be read historically by drawing on new archival materials and situating his finished works in their historical context.
Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama
Av P. McTighe
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self …
Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas
Av P. Fifield
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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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, and …
Samuel Beckett's Theatre in America
The Legacy of Alan Schneider as Beckett's American Director
Av N. Bianchini
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of …
Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work
Av P. Stewart
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual …
Beckett’s Masculinity
Av J. Jeffers
Häftad, 2010
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.
Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama
Av P. McTighe
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self …
Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas
Av P. Fifield
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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, and …
Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio
A Reassessment
Av David Addyman, Matthew Feldman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1074 kr
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This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the …
Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio
A Reassessment
Av David Addyman, Matthew Feldman m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1074 kr
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This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the …
Beckett's Intuitive Spectator
Me to Play
Häftad, 2018
689 kr
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Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this …
Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction
Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes
Inbunden, 2020
964 kr
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The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Beckett’s works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, …
Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction
Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes
Häftad, 2021
964 kr
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The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Beckett’s works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, …
Translating Samuel Beckett around the World
Av José Francisco Fernández, Pascale Sardin
Inbunden, 2021
1800 kr
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The global reception of Samuel Beckett raises numerous questions: in which areas of the world was Beckett first translated? Why were Beckett texts sometimes slow to penetrate certain cultures? How were national literatures impacted by Beckett's oeuvre? Translating Samuel Beckett around the World …
Translating Samuel Beckett around the World
Av José Francisco Fernández, Pascale Sardin
Häftad, 2022
1800 kr
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The global reception of Samuel Beckett raises numerous questions: in which areas of the world was Beckett first translated? Why were Beckett texts sometimes slow to penetrate certain cultures? How were national literatures impacted by Beckett's oeuvre? Translating Samuel Beckett around the World …
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction
Problems in Postmodernism
Av James Baxter
Inbunden, 2021
1319 kr
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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates …
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction
Problems in Postmodernism
Av James Baxter
Häftad, 2022
1319 kr
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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates …
Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance
Inbunden, 2022
1464 kr
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Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new …
Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance
Häftad, 2023
1464 kr
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Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new …
Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism
Inbunden, 2022
1438 kr
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Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now …
Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism
Häftad, 2023
1438 kr
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Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now …
Beckett Ongoing
Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics
Av Michael Krimper, Gabriel Quigley
Inbunden, 2024
1557 kr
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“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of persevering in times of crisis and impossibility. Yet few readers of Beckett agree about what this paradoxical formula could mean, let alone what mode of …
Beckett Ongoing
Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics
Av Michael Krimper, Gabriel Quigley
Häftad, 2025
1557 kr
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“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of persevering in times of crisis and impossibility. Yet few readers of Beckett agree about what this paradoxical formula could mean, let alone what mode of …
Beckett's Intuitive Spectator
Me to Play
Inbunden, 2018
961 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this …
