Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9783838211930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

David Pattie; Paul Stewart

Recenzje

"Including work from established scholars and some of the most exciting emerging voices in the field, Pop Beckett explores the engagement with and echoes of Beckett's work across a dazzling array of genres and contexts. This book makes a vital contribution towards understanding the continuing and sometimes unpredictable relevance of Beckett for our times."-Laura Salisbury, Exeter University

O autorze

Paul Stewart is Professor of Literature at the University of Nicosia. He is the author of two books on Beckett-Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Works (Palgrave, 2011) and Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett's Disjunctions (Rodopi, 2006)-and the series editor for 'Samuel Beckett in Company', published by ibidem Press. He has published widely on Beckett in such journals as The Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui. He is also a creative writer (his novel Now Then was published by Armida in 2014) and a performer in theatre, television, and film. David Pattie is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of three books (The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett (2001), Rock Music in Performance (2007), and Modern British Playwrights: the 1950s (2012)). He has also co-edited two books with Sean Albiez: Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop (2010) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (2016). Furthermore, he was part of the Staging Beckett research project, and he has published extensively on Beckett, contemporary performance, popular culture, popular music, and Scottish theatre.