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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

David Pattie

Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre.
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.
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett

A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett

Hugh Kenner

Samuel Beckett, who wrote everything both in French and English, specialized in short enigmatic texts, implying vast visionary works of which the stories are broken pieces.
Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing 'a literary ...

Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing 'a literary ...

David Tucker

Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing 'a literary fantasia' is the first full-length study to document the extent of the influence Geulincx's philosophy had on Beckett's prose and late drama.
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 ...
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.
The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

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Catherine Laws A number of Morton Feldman's late works (Elemental Procedures, Neither, Words and Music and For Samuel Beckett) owe their existence to Samuel Beckett, and the text of Neither was written by him at Feldman's request.
Undoing Time: The Life and Work of Samuel Beckett

Undoing Time: The Life and Work of Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Birkett

This volume aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new approaches in contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political ...
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 ...
Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy ...

Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy ...

Rebecca Bowler

... Dirk Van Hulle Modernism at the Microphone, Melissa Dinsman Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies, Sandeep Parmar Reframing Yeats, Charles Ivan Armstrong Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx, David Tucker Samuel Beckett and The ...
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 ...
Samuel Beckett: Ohio Impromptu

Samuel Beckett: Ohio Impromptu

Oliver Christl

Ohio Impromptu, first performed at Ohio State University in 1981, is one of Samuel Beckett's last Plays.
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 ...
Mercier and Camier

Mercier and Camier

Samuel Beckett

'All of these ingredients in the later work are accompanied here, fleetingly, by those things in Beckett that we know but cannot really name, those things that occupy so much of the trilogy.
Samuel Beckett: A Biography

Samuel Beckett: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

Examines the psychological agonies of Beckett's young manhood, his World War II heroism, his enigmatic character, and the growth of his style which revolutionized modern theater.
Samuel Beckett: Endlessness in the Year 2000

Samuel Beckett: Endlessness in the Year 2000

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MUSIC IN WORDS AND MUSIC: Feldman's Response to Beckett's Play Catherine Laws In Words and Music, as in Cascando, Beckett deploys music as an actual 'character', cast against "Words" in an exploration of their different capacities for ...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Andrew K. Kennedy

An introduction outlines the personal, cultural and specifically literary contexts of Beckett's writing, while a concluding chapter offers up-to-date reflections on his œuvre, from the point-of-view of the themes highlighted throughout the ...
Beckett on Web 2.0

Beckett on Web 2.0

Eike Rüdebusch

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Siegen (Sprach-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften), course: Samuel Beckett - Playwright, Novelist and Writer for the TV-Screen, ...
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Andrew Gibson

Gibson narrates the progression of Beckett’s life as a writer—from a student in Ireland to the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for literature—through chapters that examine individual historical events and the works that grew out of those ...
Beckett's literary legacies

Beckett's literary legacies

Matthew Feldman

While the list of 'legacees' is exhaustive and by no means limited to literature, as the only study to date covering this often paradoxical, always fascinating subject, Beckett's Literary Legacies offers a sustained exploration of Samuel ...
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 ...
Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art

Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art

C. Gardner

TheBrainis the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), pp.303–25. Connor, Steven (1988) Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text (Oxford: Basil Blackwell). Connor, Steven( 1990) ...
Filming Beckett's Television Plays: A Director's Experience

Filming Beckett's Television Plays: A Director's Experience

Sidney Homan

North, Richard. "Review of ... but the clouds . . .." The Listener (2 April 1977), in A Student's Guide to the Plays of Samuel Beckett. Ed. Beryl Fletcher, John Fletcher, Barry Smith, and Walter Bachem. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978.

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