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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- The Remains of the Modern and the Exhaustion of Thematics: An Introduction -- Theory Matters -- 1 Beckett's Voice(s) -- 2 From Unabandoned Works: Beckett's Short Prose -- 3 The Conjuring of Something Out of Nothing: Beckett's 'Closed Space' Novels -- 4 Beckett's 'Imbedded' Poetry and the Critique of Genre -- 5 Art and Commodity: Beckett's Commerce with Grove Press -- Texts Matter -- 6 Editing Beckett -- 7 A Century of Missed Opportunities: Editing an Accurate Edition of Beckett's 'Shorts' and Other Textual Misadventures -- 8 Still at Issue After All These Years: The Beckettian Text, Printed and Performed -- Performance Matters -- 9 'That's the Show': Beckett and Performance -- 10 Reinventing Beckett -- 11 Staging Beckett: Voice and/in Performance (Company, What Where and Endgame) -- 12 Beckett and the 'Idea' of Theatre: Performance Through Artaud and Deleuze -- 13 Greying the Canon: Beckett in Performance, Beckett as Performance -- 14 'I think this does call for a firm stand': Beckett at the Royal Court -- Index |
| Summary |
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarskí⁰₉s Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career.̂⁰⁰Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett́⁰₉s debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett́⁰₉s creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way.̂⁰⁰Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Modernism (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016478253 |
| ISBN |
9781474414418 |
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1474414419 |
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