Samuel Beckett And The Bible

Author : Iain Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781474250252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and The Bible written by Iain Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Waiting for Godot to such later novels as Ill Seen, Ill Said, the work of Samuel Beckett is filled with Biblical references. Samuel Beckett and the Bible re-appraises the relationships between Beckett's work and the Bible, exploring both as objects of history, matter and memory. Iain Bailey ranges across the Beckett oeuvre to examine how the Bible has come to be regarded as a book of unique significance in his work, offering innovative readings of intertextuality and influence in both published and archival writings. Beckett's Bibles, the book demonstrates, are thoroughly material, as significant for their involvement in histories of education, the family, common knowledge and canon-formation as for what they have to say about God, hope and salvation. The book explores Beckett's uneasy forms of memory, materiality, language and history to assess how far and in what ways the Bible matters in his work, and why Beckett's voice 'harps, but no worse than Holy Writ.'

Author : Richard Ellmann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773507074
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays for Richard Ellmann written by Richard Ellmann and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Ellmann's scholarly work is notable for its striking liveliness and clarity and its genuine illumination of the writers and works with which he dealt. His life of James Joyce, published in 1959, received more commendation and critical praise than any previous literary biography.

Author : Patricia Patkovszky
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640256247
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Question of God in Waiting for Godot written by Patricia Patkovszky and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), course: 20th - Century Drama, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On 5 January 1953 'Waiting for Godot' challenged its first theaters audience with a never seen dramatic work of art, radically different from anything shown before, the title "referring ironically to the nonappearance of the person awaited so faithfully by the two main protagonists". Before Beckett, drama was synonymous with action: a plot in which barely anything happens was inconceivable. Beckett is the first dramatist to focus exclusively on the act of waiting and to make this into his dominant metaphor for existence. He, at he same time, expects his audience to share that experience of waiting with Estragon and Vladimir. As Martin Esslin pointed out in 1961: "Beckett is trying to capture the basic experience of being 'in the world', having been thrust into it without a by-your-leave, and having, somehow, to come to terms with 'being there', 'Dasein' itself, in Heidegger's sense". Vladimir and Estragon, two tramps, are the main characters of the play. They perform on an empty stage, marked only by a single tree and a low mound, waiting for the appearance of a mysterious character named Godot. Two other men, Pozzo and Lucky, master and servant, turn up and stay with them for a while. To pass their time, they discuss their bodily handicaps, their non-fitting clothes and episodes of their life together as well as questions of theology. Godot, however, never comes; but a boy delivers the message, that he will be there the next day. Vladimir and Estragon consider leaving and even committing suicide, but they fail in doing so. Nearly the same events take place during the second act. Godot never comes and the story kind of repeats itself. Since the first performance of the play people

Author : Chris Ackerley
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140494
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett written by Chris Ackerley and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From A to Z, this is an indispensable guide to the works, life, and thought of one of the most important writers of our time. The Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett was a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski, it is alphabetical, cross-referenced, and laid out in a very user-friendly format. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett provides an organized trove of information for students and scholars alike, and is a must for any serious reader of Beckett.

Author : John Calder
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545554
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology of Samuel Beckett written by John Calder and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his family and education instilled in him, which as an adult he could neither accept nor reject, he used it extensively in his novels, plays and poetry. Beckett's works also explored philosophy and the imaginative world of Dante and Milton, as well as the theories of Darwin and scientific speculation, in order to create a literature that investigates human destiny more deeply and originally than any other writer had done before.In this, his second book about the essence and depth of Samuel Beckett's thinking and literary art, John Calder analyses the dualism of Beckett's theological writing, his debt to the Gnostics, Manichaeism and Geulincx in particular, the presence of ghosts in his work, and why his late writing has received so little attention compared to the early and middle periods. It will open up the much underestimated Beckett to deeper understanding and provide enjoyment to the many who have become convinced that this once derided author is one of the major literary figures of his time.

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213696
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism written by Wimbush Andy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

Author : Ohio State University. College of Humanities
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814203345
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett--humanistic Perspectives written by Ohio State University. College of Humanities and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001269
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Library written by Dirk Van Hulle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

Author : Mary Bryden
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333640760
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God written by Mary Bryden and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Bryden examines the recurring engagement with the idea of God to be found in the writing of Samuel Beckett. Drawing from the evidence of Beckett's published novels, plays, poetry and short prose, as well as from unpublished and draft manuscript material, Bryden explores both rehearsals and rejections of belief. Areas for focus include Old Testament resonances, New Testament images (such as crucifixion), theology, mysticism, the church, and the arguably surprising attachment of Beckett to certain writers (Dante, Johnson) who espoused strong Christian beliefs.

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408857669
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett written by James Knowlson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent 'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter's Proust and Richard Ellmann's Joyce in sensitivity and fascination' - Daily Telegraph 'It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives' - Evening Standard _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD PRIZE _______________ Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.