Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays

by Chris Ackerley (Contribution by), Graley Herren (Contribution by), Peter Fifield (Contribution by), Ulrika Maude (Contribution by), Matthew Feldman (Contribution by)

Overview

Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across Beckett's work, opening up new avenues of enquiry and association for scholars, students and readers of Beckett's work.

Among the subjects covered the volume includes studies of:
·Beckett and the influence of new media 1956-1960
·the influence of silent film on Beckett's work
·death, loss and Ireland in Beckett's drama - tracing Irish references in Beckett's plays from the 1950s and 1960s, including Endgame, All That Fall, Krapp's Last Tape and Eh Joe
·a consideration of Beckett's theatrical notebooks and annotated copies of his plays which provide a unique insight into his attitude toward the staging of his plays, the ways he himself interpreted his texts and approached theatrical practice.
·the French text of the novel Mercier et Camier, which both biographically and aesthetically appeared at a very significant moment in Beckett's career and indicates a crucial development in his writing
·the matter of tone in Beckett's drama, offering a new reading of the ways in which this elusive property emerges and can be read in the relationship between published text, canon and performance

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408184523
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2013
Series:	Plays and Playwrights
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	301 KB

About the Author

Dr David Addyman is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dr Fifield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, where he runs the international seminar series Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. He was organiser of the international conference Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive and is the editor of a Samuel Beckett special issue of Modernism/modernity, the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
Chris Ackerley is Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Graley Herren is Professor and Chair of English at Xavier University, USA. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He serves on the executive board for the Samuel Beckett Society and edits the Society's newsletter, The Beckett Circle.
Dr Fifield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, where he runs the international seminar series Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. He was organiser of the international conference Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive and is the editor of a Samuel Beckett special issue of Modernism/modernity, the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
Ulrika Maude is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Bristol, where she also directs the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science.
Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professional Fellow at the University of York, UK.
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He is Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Andrew Gibson was Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, where he still teaches part-time. He is currently Visiting Professor at the J.M. Coetzee Centre at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and was until recently a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Collège Internationale de Philosophie in Paris. His many books include Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Contemporary French Philosophy (2012) and Misanthropy (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Iain Bailey is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.
Yoshiki Tajiri is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Euclidean Logic? Beckett's Mathematics of the Stage (Professor C. J. Ackerley)
Stations of a Mourner's Cross: Death, Loss and Ireland in Beckett's Drama (Dr Graley Herren)
Erotics and Aesthetics in Beckett and Bataille (Dr Peter Fifield)
Translating Duthuit: New Figures in Beckett's Philosophical Landscape (Dr David Addyman)
Amnesia, Somnambulism, Fugue: Beckett and Silent Film (Dr Ulrika Maude)
Beckett and the Influence of New Media, 1956-1960 (Dr Matthew Feldman)
Sweet Thing Theology: Beckett, E. M. Cioran and the Lives of the Saints (Dr David Wheatley)
Textual Performances: Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Notebooks (Dr Mark Nixon)
Franco-Irish Beckett: Mercier et/and Camier in 1945-6 (Professor Andrew Gibson)
'It all': Tone in Beckett's Drama (Dr Iain Bailey)
Wyndham Lewis's Pseudocouple: The Childermass as a Precursor of Waiting for Godot (Yoshiki Tajiri)
Notes
Index