Samuel Beckett / edited and introduced by Jennifer Birkett and Kate Ince.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Longman critical readersPublication details: New York : Longman, 1999.Description: p. cmISBN:

0582298075 (paper)
0582298067 (csd)
9780367238650

Subject(s):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation

DDC classification:

848.914 21 BIR

Contents:

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Editors’ Note Introduction International Beckett Theory in translation Categorical criticism Beckett between modernity and postmodernity PART ONE: POLITICAL CRITICISM 1 Trying to Understand Endgame 2 Beckett by Way of Baudrillard: Toward a Political Reading of Samuel Beckett’s Drama 3 ‘The Poetry is Another Pair of Sleeves’: Beckett, Ireland and Modernist Lyric Poetry PART TWO: LITERATURE/PHILOSOPHY 4 Molloy’s Silence 5 Where now? Who now? 6 The Trilogy Translated PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTION 7 Voice and Mechanical Reproduction: Krapp’s Last Tape, Ohio Impromptu, Rockaby, That Time 8 Dispossession PART FOUR: PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM 9 Desiring-Production: The Schizo’s Stroll 10 The Fictional Body: Le Dépeupleur, Bing, Imagination morte imaginez 11 ‘Alone in the Accusative’: Beckett’s Narcissistic Echoes PART FIVE: READER RECEPTION 12 The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett’s Theater PART SIX: SEMIOTICS 13 Comic Strategies in Beckett’s Narratives PART SEVEN: FEMINISM/GENDER 14 The Father, Love, and Banishment 15 Not I: Through a Tube Starkly Glossary Notes on Authors Further Reading Index

Summary: Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Editors’ Note
Introduction
International Beckett
Theory in translation
Categorical criticism
Beckett between modernity and postmodernity
PART ONE: POLITICAL CRITICISM
1 Trying to Understand Endgame
2 Beckett by Way of Baudrillard: Toward a Political Reading of Samuel Beckett’s Drama
3 ‘The Poetry is Another Pair of Sleeves’: Beckett, Ireland and Modernist Lyric Poetry
PART TWO: LITERATURE/PHILOSOPHY
4 Molloy’s Silence
5 Where now? Who now?
6 The Trilogy Translated
PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTION
7 Voice and Mechanical Reproduction: Krapp’s Last Tape, Ohio Impromptu, Rockaby, That Time
8 Dispossession
PART FOUR: PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
9 Desiring-Production: The Schizo’s Stroll
10 The Fictional Body: Le Dépeupleur, Bing, Imagination morte imaginez
11 ‘Alone in the Accusative’: Beckett’s Narcissistic Echoes
PART FIVE: READER RECEPTION
12 The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett’s Theater
PART SIX: SEMIOTICS
13 Comic Strategies in Beckett’s Narratives
PART SEVEN: FEMINISM/GENDER
14 The Father, Love, and Banishment
15 Not I: Through a Tube Starkly
Glossary
Notes on Authors
Further Reading
Index

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.

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