Becketts Political Imagination
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Author |
: Emilie Morin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2017-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108417990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110841799X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Political Imagination by : Emilie Morin
Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.
Author |
: James McNaughton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2018-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192555496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192555499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath by : James McNaughton
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of his formative and middle years: the Irish civil war and the crisis of commitment in 1930s Europe, the rise of fascism and the atrocities of World War II. Archive yields a Beckett who monitored propaganda in speeches and newspapers, and whose creative work engages with specific political strategies, rhetoric, and events. Finally, Beckett's political aesthetic sharpens into focus. Deep within form, Beckett models ominous historical developments as surely as he satirizes artistic and philosophical interpretations that overlook them. He burdens aesthetic production with guilt: imagination and language, theater and narrative, all parallel political techniques. Beckett comically embodies conservative religious and political doctrines; he plays Irish colonial history against contemporary European horrors; he examines aesthetic complicity in effecting atrocity and covering it up. This book offers insightful, original, and vivid readings of Beckett's work up to Three Novels and Endgame.
Author |
: Emilie Morin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2017-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108305655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108305652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Political Imagination by : Emilie Morin
Beckett's Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it investigates how Beckett's bilingual texts re-imagine political history, and documents the conflicts and controversies through which Beckett's political consciousness and affirmations were mediated. The book offers a startling account of Beckett's work, tracing the many political causes that framed his writing, commitments, collaborations and friendships, from the Scottsboro Boys to the Black Panthers, from Irish communism to Spanish republicanism to Algerian nationalism, and from campaigns against Irish and British censorship to anti-Apartheid and international human rights movements. Emilie Morin reveals a very different writer, whose career and work were shaped by a unique exposure to international politics, an unconventional perspective on political action and secretive political engagements. The book will benefit students, researchers and readers who want to think about literary history in different ways and are interested in Beckett's enduring appeal and influence.
Author |
: Julie Bates |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2017-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107167049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107167043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beckett's Art of Salvage by : Julie Bates
Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion
Author |
: Alan Graham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2018-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527515017 |
ISBN-13 |
: 152751501X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland by : Alan Graham
Reflecting the rich critical debate at the ‘Beckett and the State of Ireland’ conferences held in Dublin between 2011 and 2013, this volume brings together a selection of essays which explore and respond to the Irish concerns which echo in the fiction, drama, and poetry of Samuel Beckett. From the portrayals of the haunting landscape of South County Dublin in Beckett’s work to its interrogation of the political and social pieties of the infant nation state in which the author came to maturity, Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland uncovers the enduring presence of Ireland in one of the most influential bodies of writing in modern literature. Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, representations of disability in Beckett’s fiction and drama, Ireland’s culture of incarceration, the role of eugenics in the Irish cultural imagination, and the themes of exile and displacement in Beckett’s writing, amongst other concerns, Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work and introduces new and challenging perspectives to the study of Irish literature and culture.
Author |
: Declan Kiberd |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 555 |
Release |
: 2018-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674976566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674976568 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis After Ireland by : Declan Kiberd
Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people’s faith in their institutions and thrown the nation’s struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation. After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared “the birth of a nation might also seal its doom.” In Waiting for Godot and a range of powerful works by other writers, Kiberd traces the development of an early warning system in Irish literature that portended social, cultural, and political decline. Edna O’Brien, Frank O’Connor, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Hartnett lamented the loss of the Irish language, Gaelic tradition, and rural life. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland grappled with institutional corruption and the end of traditional Catholicism. These themes, though bleak, led to audacious experimentation, exemplified in the plays of Brian Friel and Tom Murphy and the novels of John Banville. Their achievements embody the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope. After Ireland places these writers and others at the center of Ireland’s ongoing fight for independence. In their diagnoses of Ireland’s troubles, Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture, planting the seeds of a sound moral economy.
Author |
: Shani Orgad |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 391 |
Release |
: 2014-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745680859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745680852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Media Representation and the Global Imagination by : Shani Orgad
This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.
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 |
: Greg Beckett |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2020-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520378995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520378997 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis There Is No More Haiti by : Greg Beckett
This is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a crisis that never seems to end. It is about the experience of living amid the ruins of ecological devastation, economic collapse, political upheaval, violence, and humanitarian disaster. It is about how catastrophic events and political and economic forces shape the most intimate aspects of everyday life. In this gripping account, anthropologist Greg Beckett offers a stunning ethnographic portrait of ordinary people struggling to survive in Port-au-Prince in the twenty-first century. Drawing on over a decade of research, There Is No More Haiti builds on stories of death and rebirth to powerfully reframe the narrative of a country in crisis. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Haiti today.
Author |
: Cynthia L Haven |
Publisher |
: MSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2018-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781628953305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1628953306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolution of Desire by : Cynthia L Haven
René Girard (1923–2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era—a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a “mimetic theory” of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writers as Milan Kundera and J. M. Coetzee, and earned him a place among the forty “immortals” of the Académie Française. Too often, however, his work is considered only within various academic specializations. This first-ever biographical study takes a wider view. Cynthia L. Haven traces the evolution of Girard’s thought in parallel with his life and times. She recounts his formative years in France and his arrival in a country torn by racial division, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare. Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most controversial and original minds.