Beckett Matters: Essays on Beckett's Late Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781474431514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

S. E. Gontarski

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.