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Author |
: Tim Lawrence |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2018-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319753997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319753991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics by : Tim Lawrence
This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.
Author |
: TIMOTHY. LAWRENCE |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3319754009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783319754000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis SAMUEL BECKETT'S CRITICAL AESTHETICS. by : TIMOTHY. LAWRENCE
This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.
Author |
: Daniel Albright |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2003-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521829089 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521829083 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett and Aesthetics by : Daniel Albright
Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind through allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation, estrangement and general failure. He arrived, Albright shows, at some grasp of fact through the most indirect route available. Albright explores Beckett's experimentation with the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak. This powerful and highly original book explores Beckett's own engagement with radio, film, and television, prose and drama as part of an attempt to escape the confines of the aesthetic. Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.
Author |
: Marcin Tereszewski |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 105 |
Release |
: 2014-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443855242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443855243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Aesthetics of Failure by : Marcin Tereszewski
Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasize destabilization and inexpressibility as the defining features of Beckett’s output, relatively little attention has been paid to the ethical aspects of his aesthetics of failure. This book fits into that renaissance, but draws on a distinct, though rarely addressed, connection that Samuel Beckett’s work shares with that of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It is within this philosophical context that the significance of Beckett’s aesthetics of failure becomes most visible. Beckett’s work can be described as one of gradual reduction and disintegration of language, a stripping away of the tools rendering expression at all possible for the sake of approaching the inexpressible. Traditional representation yields to silence and linguistic aporia; language yields to images of absence and emptiness. The primary purpose of this study is to trace this movement of ‘unwording’ and analyze the role inexpressibility plays in Beckett’s prose in its visual, linguistic and ethical manifestations, as the aesthetics of inexpressibility is intrinsically bound with the ethical responsibility of literature understood as maintaining a relation with alterity.
Author |
: Andrea Oppo |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3039118242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783039118243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett by : Andrea Oppo
This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers (especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou) have given to his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth, comes to its complete exhaustion (as Deleuze terms it) by means of a series of 'endgames' that progressively involve philosophy, writing, language and every individual and minimal form of expression. The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of Beckett's philosophical project, this 'aesthetics of truth' turns out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the Self/Voice to the Object/Body. Yet a number of questions remain open. 'What' or 'who' lies behind this process? What is left of the endgame of art and subjectivity? Finally, what sustains and renders possible Beckett's paradoxical axiom of the 'impossibility to express' alongside the 'obligation to express'? By means of a thorough overview of the most recent criticism of Beckett, this book will try to answer these questions.
Author |
: P. Stewart |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2011-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230339279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230339271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work by : P. Stewart
This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.
Author |
: Michael Krimper |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031420306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031420306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett Ongoing by : Michael Krimper
Author |
: Lois Oppenheim |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472111175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472111176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Painted Word by : Lois Oppenheim
Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression
Author |
: Conor Carville |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2018-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108422772 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108422772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett and the Visual by : Conor Carville
This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.
Author |
: Galina Kiryushina |
Publisher |
: EUP |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474463290 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474463294 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett and Technology by : Galina Kiryushina
Explores Beckett's engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic career. This collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett's trademark aesthetics. Samuel Beckett and Technology assembles an innovative and diverse range of scholarly approaches to the topic, which collectively renegotiate our understanding of his work in prose, theatre, film, radio and television. What emerges from these discussions is the centrality of technology for Beckett's creative imagination, a factor that is equally enabling as it is limiting. At the same time, the book reveals how theories of technology can yield new readings of the way Beckett responds to the conditions of technological modernity. As such, Beckett's work is examined in its relation to historical and contemporary technologies, discourses of technicity and technē, post-humanism and the digital age. Galina Kiryushina is a Doctoral Candidate and Researcher at the Centre for Irish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Einat Adar is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of South Bohemia. Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also the Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation.