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Author Carville, Conor, 1967- author.

Title Absorption and theatricality : on Ghost Trio / Conor Carville
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (62 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge elements. Elements in Beckett studies, 2632-0746
Cambridge elements. Elements in Beckett studies.
Contents Modernism, painting, tragedy -- 'Good evening' -- The fact of separateness : Beckett and scepticism -- To-be-seenness : Fried and film -- Restoring to rectangles -- 'He will now think he hears her' -- Objects of a special gaze -- The face of the father -- The ghost
Summary Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It is also the play that most clearly demonstrates Beckett's imaginative and aesthetic engagement with the visual arts and the history of painting in particular. Drawing on the work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, On Ghost Trio demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art. In doing so Conor Carville develops a new and highly original reading of Beckett's art, rooted in both archival sources and philosophical aesthetics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Ghost trio
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781009000369
1009000365
Other Titles On Ghost Trio