| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 249 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
An endgame of aesthetics : Beckett as essayist / R. Wood -- Beckett's English fiction / J. Pilling -- Three novels and four nouvelles : giving up the ghost be born at last / P. Davies -- Waiting for Godot and Endgame : theatre as text / M. Worton -- Stages of identity : from Krapp's last tape to Play / P. Lawley -- Beginning again : the post-narrative art of Texts for nothing and How it is / H.P. Abbott -- The mediated Quixote : the radio and television plays, and Film / J. Kalb -- Dead heads : damnation-narration in the 'dramaticules' / K. Elam -- Disabled figures : from the Residua to Stirrings still / A. Renton -- Beckett's poems and verse translations or : Beckett and the limits of poetry / R. Little -- Beckett as director : the art of mastering failure / A. McMullan -- Beckett's bilingualism / A. Beer -- Beckett and the philosophers / P.J. Murphy |
| Summary |
The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett's work, some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the 'trilogy' and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more general issues such as Beckett's bilingualism and his relationship to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front and back of the book |
| Analysis |
English literature |
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English literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Pilling, John
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Cambridge University Press
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| ISBN |
9780511221668 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511221665 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511999372 |
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9780511999376 |
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