Dialogues On Beckett
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Author | : Antoni Libera |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783088958 |
‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text. It is also based on the thesis that Beckett’s main concern in his plays is Christian theology or, more broadly, the religious interpretation of the world. All his plays are an argument with that interpretation; in particular, they question the idea of theodicy and the philosophy of consolation. The aim of ‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is to make the reader aware of this essential theme in the playwright’s work, to interpret it in this light and to show his original approach to the subject. Beckett argues that we live in a post-Christian era. But for him this knowledge is no reason for joy; rather, it is a source of sadness, fear and even despair.
Author | : Matti Megged |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
A comparison between the work and ideas of Beckett and Giacometti, focusing on what Megged believes is their common quest to find a "dialogue in the void."
Author | : Lois Oppenheim |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472111176 |
Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression
Author | : Antoni Libera |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783088966 |
‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text. It is also based on the thesis that Beckett’s main concern in his plays is Christian theology or, more broadly, the religious interpretation of the world. All his plays are an argument with that interpretation; in particular, they question the idea of theodicy and the philosophy of consolation. The aim of ‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is to make the reader aware of this essential theme in the playwright’s work, to interpret it in this light and to show his original approach to the subject. Beckett argues that we live in a post-Christian era. But for him this knowledge is no reason for joy; rather, it is a source of sadness, fear and even despair.
Author | : Ruby Cohn |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0472025937 |
Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on Beckett's work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, the book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism. Cohn grapples with the difficulties in Beckett's work, including the opaque erudition of the early English verse and fiction, and the searching depths and syntactical ellipsis of the late works. Specialist and nonspecialist readers will find A Beckett Canon valuable for its remarkable inclusiveness. Cohn has examined the holdings of all of the major Beckett depositories, and is thus able to highlight neglected manuscripts and correct occasional errors in their listings. Intended as a resource to accompany the reading of Beckett's writing--in English or French, published or unpublished, in part or as a whole--the book offers context, information, and interpretation of the work of one of the last century's most important writers. Ruby Cohn is Professor Emerita of Comparative Drama, University of California, Davis. She is author or editor of many books, including Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama; Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama; From Desire to Godot; and Just Play: Beckett's Theater.
Author | : Marius Buning |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789042011977 |
Author | : Deirdre Bair |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : 0671691732 |
Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Author | : C. Gardner |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-10-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137014369 |
An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event – itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.
Author | : S. E. Gontarski |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857285807 |
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century – countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. “On Beckett” brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.
Author | : Angela Moorjani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009021850 |
Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend of tears and laughter. Moorjani offers an in-depth elucidation of texts that are shown to intersect with the negative and paradoxical path of the Buddha, which she sets in dialogue with Western thinking. She brings further perspectives from cognitive philosophy and science to bear on creative emptiness, the illusory 'I', and Beckett's probing of the writing process. Readers will benefit from this far-reaching study of one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century who explored uncharted topologies in his fiction, theatre, and poetry.