The Unnamable

The Unnamable
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571266924

The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation. I can't go on, I'll go on. Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him. Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in piles of blankets, wiling away the time with stories - writing, reminiscing, raging, surviving. The Unnameable: an armless and legless creature from a nameless place, weeping and watching in his urn, orbited by visitors outside a chop-house. Together, these selves speak, debate, exist: the prose as alive, or more, than them. 'The master innovator of them all.' Guardian

The Making of Samuel Beckett's L'innommable/The Unnamable

The Making of Samuel Beckett's L'innommable/The Unnamable
Author: Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

This is the second volume of the 'Beckett Digital Manuscript Project', which studies Beckett's works. The BDMP digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Beckett's works and facilitates their examination. The project consists of two parts: a digital archive of Beckett's manuscripts, with facsimiles and transcriptions, organized in modules; and a series of print volumes, analyzing the genesis of Beckett's works.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's L'innommable/The Unnamable

The Making of Samuel Beckett's L'innommable/The Unnamable
Author: Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

This is the second volume of the 'Beckett Digital Manuscript Project', which studies Beckett's works. The BDMP digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Beckett's works and facilitates their examination. The project consists of two parts: a digital archive of Beckett's manuscripts, with facsimiles and transcriptions, organized in modules; and a series of print volumes, analyzing the genesis of Beckett's works.

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett
Author: Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2015-01-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110707519X

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.

Samuel Beckett in Confinement

Samuel Beckett in Confinement
Author: James Little
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350112348

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett's work. Covering the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics. "James Little's Beckett in Confinement offers a brilliant analysis of the politics behind Beckett's production of closed space, both as a writer and as a director. It carefully examines the move from writing about closed space to creating an art of confinement. To argue that Beckett's use of confined space is central to the political dynamics of his works, James Little also superbly employs genetic criticism to open up the confined space of the published text and bring highly relevant draft materials back into the critical conversation." Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of Oxford, UK "The many characters Beckett invented share one characteristic: they are all imprisoned or trapped in some way, no matter where they are. Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space draws on untapped riches from Beckett's correspondence and the archives to reconsider the obsession with entrapment, coercion and detention central to Beckett's varied oeuvre. In this exciting and illuminating analysis, James Little offers a fresh and original reading of the work's ethical and political dimensions, and shows us why we need to stop thinking about confinement as a metaphysical metaphor." Emilie Morin, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York, UK "Little breaks new ground in this expansive investigation to explore how confinement is a central component of Beckett's political aesthetics ... The reader is guided by a crisp and easy style of writing as Little demonstrates a command of sources which are broad in scope, but negotiated to form a compelling and impactful study." Journal of Beckett Studies

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Author: Christoph Reinfandt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110369486

The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy’, ̒Genres’, ̒Gender’ (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.

Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio

Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio
Author: David Addyman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137542659

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Samuel Beckett in Context

Samuel Beckett in Context
Author: Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107017033

Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.

Beckett and Dialectics

Beckett and Dialectics
Author: Eva Heubach
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350136840

For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand Beckett via the dialectics underpinning his work. The different chapters explore how Beckett exposes and challenges essential dialectical concepts such as objectivity, subjectivity, exteriority, interiority, immanence, transcendence, and most crucially: negativity. With contributions from prominent scholars such as Alain Badiou, Mladen Dolar, and Rebecca Comay, Beckett and Dialectics not only sheds new light on how Beckett investigates the shapes, types, and forms of negation – as in the all-pervasive figures of 'nothing', 'no', 'null', and 'not' – but also examines how several phenomena that occur throughout Beckett's work are structured in their use of negativity. These include the relationships between voice and silence, space and void, movement and stasis, the finite and the infinite and repetition and transformation. This original analysis lends an important new perspective to Beckett studies, and even more fundamentally, to dialectics itself.

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity
Author: Derval Tubridy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108651674

Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy's fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett's translations - between languages, genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self's extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett's concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power.