Beckett Matters: Essays on Beckett's Late Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781474414401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str.

S.E. Gontarski

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Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's 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.Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett's debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett's creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way.Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.

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Remains of the Modern: The Exhaustion of Thematics; Part I: 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; Part II: Texts Matter; 6. Editing Beckett; 7. A Century of Missed Opportunities: Editing an Accurate Editions of Samuel Beckett’s “Shorts” and other Textual Misadventures; 8. Still at Issue after All These Years: The Beckettian Text, Printed and Performed; Part III: 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. Samuel Beckett and the ‘Idea’ of Theatre: Performance through Artaud and Deleuze; 13. Greying the Canon: Beckett in Performance, Beckett as Performing; 14. ‘I think this does call for a firm stand’: Beckett at the Royal Court.