Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802120458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
A first printed release of a lesser-known short story originally excluded from the Nobel Prize-winning literary master's collection, More Pricks Than Kicks, is complemented by a scholarly introduction that places it in a biographical context and discusses its Joycean influences.

First Love and Other Shorts

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
'First Love', a man's musings about his youth occasioned by his visit to his father's grave, was first written by Samuel Beckett in French in 1945, but it wasn't until 1973 that he completed this the English translation.

Art, History, and Postwar Fiction

Author: Kevin Brazil
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198824459
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which twenty-century novelists responded to visual art and how writing about art was often a means of commenting on historical developments of the period.

Beckett and Politics

Author: William Davies
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030471101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens: it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett’s life, his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett’s work is not only ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader relationships between literature, culture and politics.

Beckett and Phenomenology

Author: Ulrika Maude
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441123172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
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 work.

Beckett Matters

Author: S.E. Gontarski
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474414427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
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.a 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.a Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.

Exploring Postmodernism

Author: Matei Calinescu
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902727858X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a household word in the language of advertising and politics. Before letting it fade to a derelict cliché, an attempt is made in this volume of essays to use its potential as a cultural concept for the analysis and understanding of contemporary literature and thought.

Murphy

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

The Ideal Real

Author: Paul Davies
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635179
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
In The Ideal Real, Paul Davies argues that Beckett saw this potential self emerging in the world of imagination and symbol, especially in this age where language alone has come to be seen as the vehicle of education and the determiner of identity.