Samuel Beckett and the arts : Italian negotiations / edited by Davide Crosara and Mario Martino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crosara, Davide, Author.

Contributor:

Crosara, Davide, 1976- editor.

Martino, Mario, 1953- editor.

Series:

Anthem studies in global English literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2024.

Summary:

Beckett's dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Beckett's relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side - and on Italian artists' response to Beckett's oeuvre on the other - is still missing. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett's presence on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an 'Italian' artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part One. Visual Encounters

Chapter 1. ‘The Pantheon at Rome or Certain Beehive Tombs’: Beckett’s Posthumous Architecture

Chapter 2. Some Notes on Beckett and Michelangelo

Chapter 3. ‘J’ai eu L’image’: Samuel Beckett and Gastone Novelli

Part Two. Radio and Opera

Chapter 4. Beckett’s Neither, an ‘Anti-Opera’ in Rome

Chapter 5. From Inferno to Sorrento: Dante, Wartime Radio and the Italia Prize

Part Three. Poetic Voices

Chapter 6. Beckett the Troubadour

Chapter 7. The Empty House: Watt’s Leopardian Traces

Part Four. Echoes. Translations, Reverberations

Chapter 8. Beckett Resonating in Italy: Which Text, Whose Voice?

Chapter 9. Beckett after Language Generated by AI.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83998-968-8

1-83998-967-X

OCLC:

1433226351