Samuel Becketts Library

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 : University of Delaware Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971236011
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by University of Delaware Library and published by . This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keepsake of an exhibition, 6-page color brochure

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000807118
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Beckett written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of five previously out-of-print titles examines Samuel Beckett’s works and their impact on the theatre, and on people who came into creative contact with his ideas. His plays are assessed, as are his works for film and television. A titan of original thinking, these books by leading Beckett scholars analyse how his creative vision was expressed and how it revolutionised not just the world of theatre but also of the wider world of the arts.

Author : C. J. Ackerly
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780802199805
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett written by C. J. Ackerly and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett is 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. As most Beckettians know, “reading [him] for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.” (Paul Auster)

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378497
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre on Trial written by Anna McMullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance. Recent work in the world of critical theory has suggested new ways of looking at performance practice. McMullan argues that, while contemporary theory can deepen our understanding of Beckett’s dramatic practice, his drama places performance in the context of a metaphysical history and a metatheatrical tradition, thereby confronting and provoking some of the central debates in performance studies’ engagement with critical theory.

Author : Shimon Levy
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349109715
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett’s Self-Referential Drama written by Shimon Levy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author aims to offer a new approach to the so-called solipsistic approach to artistic self-reference. It deals with the subject philosophically and from the actual and practical modes of theatrical expression such as movement and space, lighting and stage properties.

Author : Breon Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Word and Image written by Breon Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wimbush Andy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213696
Total Pages : 292 pages
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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 : University of Reading. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The Samuel Beckett Collection written by University of Reading. Library and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection contains clipping, program and publicity files.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682190129
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stirrings Still written by Samuel Beckett and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature A dense inner monologue, Stirrings Still was written by Beckett in 1987 and 1988, when he had become increasingly reflective about his life. It portrays, in Beckett’s spare style, a “consciousness” exploring a “self,” faced with uncertainties about its own existence. Stirrings Still is a spellbinding work, full of a sense of farewell. It is dedicated to Beckett’s longtime friend and publisher Barney Rosset. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was a playwright, poet and novelist whose work has had a formative influence on 20th century culture. Born in Foxrock, Ireland, he moved to Paris after an abortive attempt at being an academic. Years of penury and obscurity followed, during which time he consorted with artists such as James Joyce, Alberto Giacometti, and Marcel Duchamp. During World War II, he was an active member of the French Resistance, and after the war he was honored with the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. In 1954, Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” was introduced to an unsuspecting America by Barney Rosset at Grove Press; Beckett became a signature author of the fledgling company. Although he was highly regarded by a small circle of literary aficionados, it was not until Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (he famously gave away the prize money that accompanied it) that his work began to reach a wider audience. His writing is characterized by meticulousness and a ceaseless fascination with the puzzle of fitting words to actions, and with the simultaneous impossibility and necessity of doing so that marks the human condition.