Screen LibrarySamuel Beckett：history, memory, archive
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 226 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0230619444 (alk. paper) 9780230619449 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I562 |
| CLC: | I562.065 |
| Call Number: | I562.065/S193 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-214) and index. Does Beckett studies require a subject? Mourning Ireland in the Texts for Nothing / Sean Kennedy -- Between gospel and prohibition: Beckett in Nazi Germany 1936-1937 / Mark Nixon -- Beckett's "Brilliant Obscurantics": Watt and the problem of propaganda / James McNaughton -- Beckett's theatre "After Auschwitz" / Jackie Blackman -- "Faintly struggling things": trauma, testimony, and inscrutable life in Beckett's The Unnamable / Alysia E. Garrison -- Samuel Beckett, the archive, and the problem of history / Robert Reginio -- Archives of the end: embodied history in Samuel Beckett's plays / Jonathan Boulter -- "Humanity in ruins": the historical body in Samuel Beckett's fiction / Katherine Weiss -- Writing relics: mapping the composition history of Beckett's Endgame / Dirk Van Hulle -- "Agnostic quietism" and Samuel Beckett's early development / Matthew Feldman "This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett's engagement with history. As the first full-length volume to address the historical debate in Beckett studies, Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive provides both ground-breaking analysis of the major works as well as a sustained interrogation of the critical assumptions that underpin Beckett studies more generally. Drawing on a range of archival materials, and situating Beckett in historical context, these essays pose a strong challenge to the prevailing critical consensus that he was a deracinated modernist who cannot be read historically."--BOOK JACKET. |