The new Cambridge companion to Samuel Beckett / edited by Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hulle, Dirk van, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 228 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett studies today. This Companion considers Beckett's lasting significance by addressing a host of relevant topics. Written by a team of renowned scholars, this volume presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism, intertextuality, late modernism, history, philosophy, ethics, body and mind. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments in Beckett studies while prompting further exploration, assisted by the guide to further reading.

Contents:

1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' / John Pilling

2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped / Angela Moorjani

3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' / Peter Boxall

4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett's cultural impact / Rónán McDonald

5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings / Emilie Morin

6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet / Mark Nixon

7. Beckett and late modernism / Shane Weller

8. Beckett's intertexts / Anthony Uhlmann

9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn / Sam Slote

10. Samuel Beckett and the 'idea' of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze / S.E. Gontarski

11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy / Peter Fifield

12. Love and lobsters: Beckett's meta-ethics / Jean-Michael Rabaté

13. Beckett, body and mind / Ulrika Maude

14. 'Humanity in ruins': Beckett and history / Seán Kennedy.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316234976

1316234975

9781316236864

1316236862

9781139871525

1139871528

OCLC:

902772691