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Beckett Matters - S. E. Gontarski

Beckett Matters

Essays on Beckett's Late Modernism

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474431514 (ISBN)
CHF 56,90 inkl. MwSt
Collects Stan Gontarski’s finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year period
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski’s Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career. Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett’s debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett’s creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way. Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.
Key Features
Includes 24 original essays divided into thematic sections: modernism, theory, editing, introducing, and performing and covers Beckett’s drama, staging, fiction, poetry and proseUnique collection of Beckett scholarship by a leading Beckett critic and theatre director brought together for the first timeNew introductory essay reflecting on the development of Beckett scholarship

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

Remains of the Modern: The Exhaustion of Thematics



Theory Matters





Beckett’s Voice(s)




From Unabandoned Works: Beckett’s Short Prose




The Conjuring of Something Out of Nothing: Beckett’s ‘Closed Space’ Novels




Beckett’s "Imbedded" Poetry and the Critique of Genre




Art and Commodity: Beckett’s Commerce with Grove Press




Texts Matter

Editing Beckett




A Century of Missed Opportunities: Editing an Accurate Editions of Samuel Beckett’s "Shorts" and other Textual Misadventures




Still at Issue after All These Years: The Beckettian Text, Printed and Performed




Performance Matters



‘That’s the Show’: Beckett and Performance




Reinventing Beckett


Staging Beckett: Voice and/in Performance, Company, What Where, and Endgame




Samuel Beckett and the ‘Idea’ of Theatre: Performance through Artaud and Deleuze




Greying the Canon: Beckett in Performance, Beckett as Performing




‘I think this does call for a firm stand’: Beckett at the Royal Court

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 455 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13 9781474431514 / 9781474431514
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