Ten Ways of Thinking about Samuel Beckett: The Falsetto of Reason

ISBN-13: 9781408137222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Enoch Brater

Opis

Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often surprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic.

Recenzje

'Those who are still intimidated by Beckett's reputation should read Enoch Brater's witty, stimulating, brilliantly discursive reflections on his work. They'll end up finding both the writer and the critic far more entertaining than they dared suspect.' Benedict Nightingale

Spis treści

Preface Beckett and a Way of Thinking
1. Things to Ponder while Waiting for Godot
2. From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century
3. Beckett's Landscape: What There Is to Recognize
4. Beckett's Shades of the Color Gray
5. The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage
6. Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots
7. Beckett's-What?-Romanticism
8. Beckett's Beckett: So Many Words for Silence
9. "Traces blurs signs": Where Beckett Meets Ibsen
10. Suitcases, Sand and Dry Goods
Addendum To What?: The No-Thing that Knows No Name and the Empty Envelope Blissfully Reconsidered

O autorze

Enoch Brater is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan and the series editor of Methuen Drama's Miller scholarly editions. He has written extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller.Enoch Brater is the Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan. He is series editor of Methuen Drama's Arthur Miller scholarly editions, and with Mark Taylor-Batty of Methuen Drama's Engage series. He has written extensively on the work of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller.