The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts

S.E. Gontarski

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts

S.E. Gontarski

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748675692

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About this book

A landmark collection showcasing the diversity of Samuel Beckett’s creative output

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, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; Fictions; European Context; Irish Context; Film, Radio & Television; Language/Writing; Philosophies; Theatre & Performance; Global Beckett. Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism – The Questions We Ask S. E. Gontarski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Art and Aesthetics
1. ‘Deux Besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma C. J. Ackerley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. ‘Siege Laid Again’: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage David Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot Ulrika Maude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4. Pain Degree Zero Sam Slote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Part 2: Fictions
5. Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels Paul Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
6. A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s Three Novels Andrew V. McFeaters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
7. Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett’s Short Prose Tomasz Wiśniewski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part 3: A European Context
8. French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945–52 Andrew Gibson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9. Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing John Pilling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
10. Beckett’s Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation Jean-Michel Rabaté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
11. Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialo Anthony Uhlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
12. Gloria SMH and Beckett’s Linguistic Encryptions Laura Salisbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
13. ‘I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’ (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde Peter Fifield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
14. Beckett and Contemporary French Literature Sjef Houppermans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Part 4: An Irish Context
15. The ‘Irish’ Translation of Samuel Beckett’s En Attendant Godot Anthony Roche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
16. Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in Emilie Morin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
17. ‘Bid Us Sigh On from Day to Day’: Beckett and the Irish Big House Seán Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Part 5: Film, Radio and Television
18. A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy Graley Herren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
19. ‘The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett’s Radio Plays Everett C. Frost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Part 6: Language/Writing
20. ‘Was That a Point?’: Beckett’s Punctuation Steven Connor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
21. Beckett’s Unpublished Canon Mark Nixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
22. Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship Dirk Van Hulle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
23. Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading Adam Piette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
Part 7: Philosophies
24. Beckett and Philosophy Matthew Feldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
25. ‘Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental S. E. Gontarski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
26. Beckett, Modernism and Christianity Erik Tonning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Part 8: Theatre and Performance
27. ‘Oh Lovely Art’: Beckett and Music David Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
28. Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake Laura Peja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	386
29. Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett’s ‘A Piece of Monologue’ Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce John Paul Riquelme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
30. Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert’s Contribution to Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Aesthetics Anna McMullan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
31. Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude – Beckett’s Endgame Annamaria Cascetta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
32. Performing the Formless Geneviève Chevallier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Part 9: Global Beckett
33. ‘Facing Other Windows’: Beckett in Brazil Fábio de Souza Andrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
34. Beckett in Belgrade Predrag Todorovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
35. ‘Struggling With a Dead Language’: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s Mariko Hori Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 512
Illustrations
- Other: 18 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: February 7, 2014
ISBN: 9780748675692