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Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ian Beckett

The First Battle 1914 Ian Beckett. trying to dig in ... Bythis time, however, thebattlewas effectively over.39 Notes and References 1 IanF.W.Beckett (1985),' The Nation in Arms, 1914–18' in Ian F.W. Beckett and Keith Simpson(eds.),A Nation in ...
Victorians at War

Victorians at War

Ian Beckett

Ian Beckett's book is already established as the definitive history of the Victorian army. >
Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ian Beckett

In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.
Understanding Contemporary Strategy

Understanding Contemporary Strategy

Thomas M. Kane

41 Westfall, Mozambique,, p.16. 42 IanF. W. Beckett,'The Portuguese Army: TheCampaignin Mozambique, 1964–74', in Ian F.W. Beckett and John Pimlott( eds), ArmedForces andModern Counterinsurgency, London: Croom Helm, 1985, p.139.
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

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Œuvres complètes, vol. II, edited by Bertrand Marchal. Paris: Gallimard. Maude, Ulrika. 2008. '“A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going”: Beckett and Tourette's'. Journal of Beckett Studies 17.1–2: 153–68. 2011. Beckett, Technology and the Body.
Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Interventions

Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Interventions

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G. Kennedy(New York: Routledge,2008), 172, and IanF.W. Beckett, “ TheRhodesian Army; Counter Insurgency, 1972–79,” in Armed Forces and Modern CounterInsurgency, ed. Ian F. W. Beckett and John Pimlott (Beckenham: Croon Helm, ...
Beckett and Religion: Beckett/aesthetics/politics

Beckett and Religion: Beckett/aesthetics/politics

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THE DOUBLE IMAGE OF MUSIC IN BECKETT'S EARLY FICTION Catherine Laws Recent Beckett criticism has increasingly turned its attention towards the early prose, frequently in an attempt to locate the 'origins' of the author's later ...
Beckett and Musicality

Beckett and Musicality

Sara Jane Bailes

Chapter 14 Music in Beckett's Nacht und Träume: Vocality and Imagination1 Catherine Laws Introduction: Beckett, Schubert and Romanticism Beckett's love of music is frequently commented upon, and Schubert is the composer to whom he ...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Birkett

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's ...
Traces

Traces

Ian Beckett

A collection of 151 poems from my travels and a title poem.
Beckett and Phenomenology

Beckett and Phenomenology

Ulrika Maude

A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's ...
Samuel Beckett's Endgame

Samuel Beckett's Endgame

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... plays in Spain are from my paper 'Beckett in Spain: Theater and Politics,' originally written in English and published in Italian in a special number of Drammaturgia devoted to Beckett and edited by Anna Maria Cascetta and S. E. Gontarski.
1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the ...

1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the ...

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... in MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray (eds), The Dynamics of Military Revolution 1300–2050, Cambridge University Press, 2001; Ian Beckett and Steven J. Corvi (eds), Haig's Generals, Pen and Sword, 2006; Ian Malcolm Brown , British ...
Beckett's Art of Mismaking

Beckett's Art of Mismaking

Leland de la Durantaye

Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or ...
The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

P. McTighe

Marks, Laura.The Skin oftheFilm. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Maude, Ulrika.Beckett, Technology andthe Body. Cambridge: Cambridge ———. “' AStirring Beyond Coming and Going': Beckett and Tourette's.” Journal.
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

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51 In fact before 1885, sufferers of Tourette's symptom were classified as hysterics: for an analysis of Beckett's writing and Tourette's syndrome, see Ulrika Maude, '“A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going”: Beckett and Tourette's', Journal ...
50 Is Only Half Way To 100

50 Is Only Half Way To 100

Ian Beckett

Poems written around the world - this edition a birthday present for Stewart Sherriff
Butterflies for Breakfast

Butterflies for Breakfast

Ian Beckett

Living poems about love and travel...some fun some sad...maybe you will find yourself in these verses.
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: A Selective ...

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: A Selective ...

Charles A. Carpenter

Pp. 222–40 in Pilling 1994 Myskja, Bjørn K. The sublime in Kant and Beckett: aestheticjudgement, ethics and literature. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2002. 313 pp. ( Beckett's theories emerge in chapters on 'Molloy and the ethics ofliterature' [12– 59] and ...
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All

Beckett at 100: Revolving It All

Linda Ben-Zvi

CATHERINE LAWS A NUMBER OF MORTON Feldman's late works (Elemental Procedures, Neither, Words and Music, and For Samuel Beckett) draw on the work of Samuel Beckett, and the text of Neither was written by him at Feldman's ...
Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

James Knowlson

(Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett, p.335). Beckett told Harvey that they returned together and stayed onin Paris for a few months, before he left alone for Ireland around Easter. LH, undated interview with SB (Dartmouth). 2. Interview with Josette ...
Samuel Beckett: A Casebook

Samuel Beckett: A Casebook

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"Sadism Demands a Story": Looking at Gender and Pain in Samuel Beckett's Plays Karen Laughlin One of my most lasting impressions from the April 1996 Samuel Beckett conference in Strasbourg was an extraordinary production of Eh Joe ...
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

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Ulrika Maude, “'A Stirring Beyond Coming and Going': Beckett and Tourette's,” Journal ofBeckett Studies 17,nos.1–2 (2008),158, 160. 23. August 1931. Quoted by Pilling in Beckett's Dream Notebook, xiii. Beckett's Dream Notebook, ed.
Riflemen form: a study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, ...

Riflemen form: a study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, ...

Ian Frederick William Beckett

Summary: Is a poignant story of a soldier's love in wartime.
Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45

Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45

M. Feldman

Also by Matthew Feldman Fascism: Critical Concepts, 5 Vols., eds. Roger Griffin with Matthew Feldman (2004) Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Notes' (2006; revised paperback edition 2008) Beckett's Literary ...
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.

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