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Titolo: |
The Edinburgh companion to Samuel Beckett and the arts / / edited by S. E. Gontarski
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Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (521 p.) |
Disciplina: | 828.91209 |
Soggetto topico: | Arts, Modern - 20th century |
Classificazione: | IH 15721 |
Persona (resp. second.): | GontarskiS. E. |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism - The Questions We Ask; Part 1: Art and Aesthetics; 1: 'Deux Besoins': Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma; Plate Section; 2: 'Siege Laid Again': Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage; 3: Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot; 4: Pain Degree Zero; Part 2: Fictions; 5: Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels; 6: A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Three Novels; 7: Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett's Short Prose; Part 3: A European Context |
8: French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945-529: Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing; 10: Beckett's Masson: From Abstraction to Non-relation; 11: Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialogue; 12: Gloria SMH and Beckett's Linguistic Encryptions; 13: 'I am Writing a Manifesto Because I have nothing to say' (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde; 14: Beckett and Contemporary French Literature; Part 4: An Irish Context; 15: The 'Irish' Translation of Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot; 16: Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in 1930s Dublin | |
17: 'Bid us sigh on from day to day': Beckett and the Irish Big HousePart 5: Film, Radio and Television; 18: A Womb with a View: FIlm as Regression Fantasy; 19: 'The Sound is Enough': Beckett's Radio Plays; Part 6: Language/Writing; 20: 'Was that a point?': Beckett's Punctuation; 21: Beckett's Unpublished Canon; 22: Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship; 23: Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading; Part 7: Philosophies; 24: Beckett and Philosophy; 25: 'Ruse a by': Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental Empiricism | |
26: Beckett, Modernism and ChristianityPart 8: Theatre and Performance; 27: 'Oh Lovely Art': Beckett and Music; 28: Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake in Beckett's Catastrophe; 29: Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett's 'A Piece of Monologue' Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce; 30: Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert's Contribution to Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Aesthetics; 31: Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude - Beckett's Endgame; 32: Performing the Formless; Part 9: Global Beckett | |
33: 'Facing Other WIndows': Beckett in Brazil34: Beckett in Belgrade; 35: 'Struggling with a Dead Language': Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s; List of Contributors; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The 35 new and 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, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Mark Nixon, a |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Edinburgh companion to Samuel Beckett and the arts ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-78402-538-0 |
0-7486-7570-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910787995403321 |
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