The Cambridge companion to Beckett / edited by John Pilling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pilling, John, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book.

Contents:

An endgame of aesthetics : Beckett as essayist / R. Wood

Beckett's English fiction / J. Pilling

Three novels and four nouvelles : giving up the ghost be born at last / P. Davies

Waiting for Godot and Endgame : theatre as text / M. Worton

Stages of identity : from Krapp's last tape to Play / P. Lawley

Beginning again : the post-narrative art of Texts for nothing and How it is / H.P. Abbott

The mediated Quixote : the radio and television plays, and Film / J. Kalb

Dead heads : damnation-narration in the 'dramaticules' / K. Elam

Disabled figures : from the Residua to Stirrings still / A. Renton

Beckett's poems and verse translations or : Beckett and the limits of poetry / R. Little

Beckett as director : the art of mastering failure / A. McMullan

Beckett's bilingualism / A. Beer

Beckett and the philosophers / P.J. Murphy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81518-0

0-511-99937-2