Beckett And Modernism
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Author |
: Olga Beloborodova |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2018-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319703749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319703749 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett and Modernism by : Olga Beloborodova
This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre – encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film – as a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of ‘modernism after postmodernism’ in all its complexity, covering a broad range of topics spanning Beckett’s entire career. In addition to more thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett studies and modernism studies.
Author |
: Steven Connor |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2014-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107059221 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107059224 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination by : Steven Connor
This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett's writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.
Author |
: Peter Gay |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 664 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393052052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393052053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism the Lure of Heresy by : Peter Gay
This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
Author |
: Frederick J. Marker |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802082068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802082060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism in European Drama by : Frederick J. Marker
This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett.
Author |
: Rick de Villiers |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2021-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474479059 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474479057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism by : Rick de Villiers
<h4>Explores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</h4>
<ul><li>Offers the first book-length comparative study of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett</li>
<li>Develops a literary theory of humility and humiliation – concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology</li>
<li>Explores the relation between negative affect, ethics and aesthetics</li></ul>
<p>Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of shame. Yet a shared etymology links the words to lowliness and, further down, to the earth. As this study suggests, like the terms in question, T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett share an imperfect likeness. Between them is a common interest in states of abjection, shame and suffering – and possible responses to such states. Tracing the relation between negative affect, ethics, and aesthetics, <i>Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism</i> demonstrates how these two major modernists recuperate the affinity between humility and humiliation – concepts whose definitions have largely been determined by philosophy and theology.</p>
Author |
: John Bolin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107029842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107029848 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett and the Modern Novel by : John Bolin
John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.
Author |
: Andrew Gaedtke |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2017-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108418003 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108418007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism and the Machinery of Madness by : Andrew Gaedtke
This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period's experimental fiction.
Author |
: Dirk Van Hulle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2015-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107075191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110707519X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett by : Dirk Van Hulle
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
Author |
: Wimbush Andy |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2020-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783838213699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3838213696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by : Wimbush Andy
In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.
Author |
: David Houston Jones |
Publisher |
: Ibidem Press |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2017-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3838208498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783838208497 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art by : David Houston Jones
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art-he is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. The volume explores Beckett's formal experiments in drama, prose, and other media as contemporary, parallel revisions of modernism's theoretical presuppositions congruent with trends like Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Containing interviews with and pieces by working artists, alongside contributions of scholars of literature and the visual arts, this collection offers an essential reassessment of Beckett's work. Perceiving Beckett's ongoing importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices, dominated by installation and conceptual strategies, it offers a completely new frame through which to read perennial Beckettian themes of impotence, failure, and penury. From Beckett's remains, as it were, contemporary artists find endless inspiration.