Beckett matters : essays on Beckett's late modernism / S.E. Gontarski.
2017
PR6003.E28 Z5628 2017eb
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Title
Beckett matters : essays on Beckett's late modernism / S.E. Gontarski.
Author
Gontarski, S. E., author.
ISBN
9781474414418 (electronic bk.)
1474414419 (electronic bk.)
9781474414401
1474414400
9781474414425 (epub)
1474414419 (electronic bk.)
9781474414401
1474414400
9781474414425 (epub)
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PR6003.E28 Z5628 2017eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)981963919
Summary
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarskí⁰₉s Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career.̂⁰⁰Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett́⁰₉s debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett́⁰₉s creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way.̂⁰⁰Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The Remains of the Modern and the Exhaustion of Thematics: An Introduction
Theory Matters
1 Beckett's Voice(s)
2 From Unabandoned Works: Beckett's Short Prose
3 The Conjuring of Something Out of Nothing: Beckett's 'Closed Space' Novels
4 Beckett's 'Imbedded' Poetry and the Critique of Genre
5 Art and Commodity: Beckett's Commerce with Grove Press
Texts Matter
6 Editing Beckett
7 A Century of Missed Opportunities: Editing an Accurate Edition of Beckett's 'Shorts' and Other Textual Misadventures
8 Still at Issue After All These Years: The Beckettian Text, Printed and Performed
Performance Matters
9 'That's the Show': Beckett and Performance
10 Reinventing Beckett
11 Staging Beckett: Voice and/in Performance (Company, What Where and Endgame)
12 Beckett and the 'Idea' of Theatre: Performance Through Artaud and Deleuze
13 Greying the Canon: Beckett in Performance, Beckett as Performance
14 'I think this does call for a firm stand': Beckett at the Royal Court
Index
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The Remains of the Modern and the Exhaustion of Thematics: An Introduction
Theory Matters
1 Beckett's Voice(s)
2 From Unabandoned Works: Beckett's Short Prose
3 The Conjuring of Something Out of Nothing: Beckett's 'Closed Space' Novels
4 Beckett's 'Imbedded' Poetry and the Critique of Genre
5 Art and Commodity: Beckett's Commerce with Grove Press
Texts Matter
6 Editing Beckett
7 A Century of Missed Opportunities: Editing an Accurate Edition of Beckett's 'Shorts' and Other Textual Misadventures
8 Still at Issue After All These Years: The Beckettian Text, Printed and Performed
Performance Matters
9 'That's the Show': Beckett and Performance
10 Reinventing Beckett
11 Staging Beckett: Voice and/in Performance (Company, What Where and Endgame)
12 Beckett and the 'Idea' of Theatre: Performance Through Artaud and Deleuze
13 Greying the Canon: Beckett in Performance, Beckett as Performance
14 'I think this does call for a firm stand': Beckett at the Royal Court
Index
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