The New Cambridge Companion To Samuel Beckett

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110707519X
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett written by Dirk Van Hulle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.

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Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521424134
Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Beckett written by John Pilling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240649
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett written by Dirk Van Hulle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ronan McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0511345887
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett written by Ronan McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. This book provides biographical and contextual information, but more fundamentally, it also considers how we might think about an enduringly difficult and experimental novelist and playwright who often challenges the very concepts of meaning and interpretation. It deals with his life, intellectual and cultural background, plays, prose, and critical response and relates Beckett's work and vision to the culture and context from which he wrote. McDonald provides a sustained analysis of the major plays, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days and his major prose works including Murphy, Watt and his famous 'trilogy' of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable). This introduction concludes by mapping the huge terrain of criticism Beckett's work has prompted, and it explains the turn in recent years to understanding Beckett within his historical context.

Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521886090
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter written by Peter Raby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of this popular Companion examining the wide range of Pinter's work, and his continuing impact and influence.

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493897
Total Pages : 475 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists written by Michael Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.

Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521679961
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel written by John Wilson Foster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185444X
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel written by Morag Shiach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.

Author : John Pilling
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Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Beckett written by John Pilling and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.