Beckett and Aesthetics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521829083
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Beckett and Aesthetics by : Daniel Albright

Download or read book Beckett and Aesthetics written by Daniel Albright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; instead he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett escaped from this bind through allegories of artistic frustration and through an art of non-representation, estrangement and general failure. He arrived, Albright shows, at some grasp of fact through the most indirect route available. Albright explores Beckett's experimentation with the notion that an artistic medium might itself be made to speak. This powerful and highly original book explores Beckett's own engagement with radio, film, and television, prose and drama as part of an attempt to escape the confines of the aesthetic. Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.

Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118243
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett by : Andrea Oppo

Download or read book Philosophical Aesthetics and Samuel Beckett written by Andrea Oppo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers (especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou) have given to his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth, comes to its complete exhaustion (as Deleuze terms it) by means of a series of 'endgames' that progressively involve philosophy, writing, language and every individual and minimal form of expression. The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of Beckett's philosophical project, this 'aesthetics of truth' turns out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the Self/Voice to the Object/Body. Yet a number of questions remain open. 'What' or 'who' lies behind this process? What is left of the endgame of art and subjectivity? Finally, what sustains and renders possible Beckett's paradoxical axiom of the 'impossibility to express' alongside the 'obligation to express'? By means of a thorough overview of the most recent criticism of Beckett, this book will try to answer these questions.

The Aesthetics of Failure

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855243
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of Failure by : Marcin Tereszewski

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Failure written by Marcin Tereszewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to emphasize destabilization and inexpressibility as the defining features of Beckett’s output, relatively little attention has been paid to the ethical aspects of his aesthetics of failure. This book fits into that renaissance, but draws on a distinct, though rarely addressed, connection that Samuel Beckett’s work shares with that of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It is within this philosophical context that the significance of Beckett’s aesthetics of failure becomes most visible. Beckett’s work can be described as one of gradual reduction and disintegration of language, a stripping away of the tools rendering expression at all possible for the sake of approaching the inexpressible. Traditional representation yields to silence and linguistic aporia; language yields to images of absence and emptiness. The primary purpose of this study is to trace this movement of ‘unwording’ and analyze the role inexpressibility plays in Beckett’s prose in its visual, linguistic and ethical manifestations, as the aesthetics of inexpressibility is intrinsically bound with the ethical responsibility of literature understood as maintaining a relation with alterity.

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349291625
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work by : P. Stewart

Download or read book Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work written by P. Stewart and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.

Samuel Beckett and the Visual

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422772
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Samuel Beckett and the Visual by : Conor Carville

Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Visual written by Conor Carville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

The Painted Word

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472111176
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis The Painted Word by : Lois Oppenheim

Download or read book The Painted Word written by Lois Oppenheim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression

Beckett's Art of Absence

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230575189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Book Synopsis Beckett's Art of Absence by : Ciaran Ross

Download or read book Beckett's Art of Absence written by Ciaran Ross and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence. Focusing on the first prose trilogy and Waiting for Godot, it offers a critical challenge to accepted viewpoints of Beckett's negative status, not only within psychoanalytic literary criticism, but within Beckett criticism at large.

Beckett's Thing

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474415733
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Beckett's Thing by : David Lloyd

Download or read book Beckett's Thing written by David Lloyd and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.

Reading Games

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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564784735
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Games by : Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja

Download or read book Reading Games written by Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading Games, Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja guides us through an entertaining and instructive exploration of a neglected literary genre, the Play-Text. Focusing on the works of Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Georges Perec, Bohman-Kalaja's book provides insightful analysis of game and play theories, as well as a new perspective on the world of experimental fiction -- discovering, step by step, the innovative strategies of those authors who play reading games.

Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408137232
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett by : Enoch Brater

Download or read book Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett written by Enoch Brater and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett is acknowledged as one of the greatest playwrights and most innovative fiction writers of the twentieth century with an international appeal that bridges both general and more specialist readers. This collection of essays by renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a delightfully original, playful and intriguing series of approaches to Beckett's drama, fiction and poetry. Beginning with a chapter entitled 'Things to Ponder While Waiting for Godot', each essay deftly illuminates aspects of Beckett's thinking and craft, making astute and often surprising discoveries along the way. In a series of beguiling discussions such as 'From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century', 'Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots' and 'The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage', Brater proves the perfect companion and commentator on Beckett's work, helping readers to approach it with fresh eyes and a renewed sense of the author's unique aesthetic. 'An eloquent, witty and erudite collection of essays that illuminates Beckett's drama and prose fiction from a number of complementary perspectives. Brater's precise explication of the interwoven tropes of language and mise-en-scène is combined with a fine grasp of the overarching structure of work ... to create a rich and suggestive series of reflections on Beckett's aesthetics.' - Robert Gordon, Professor of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London

The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521424134
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Beckett by : John Pilling

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Beckett written by John Pilling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Absorption and Theatricality

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100900333X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Absorption and Theatricality by : Conor Carville

Download or read book Absorption and Theatricality written by Conor Carville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It is also the play that most clearly demonstrates Beckett's imaginative and aesthetic engagement with the visual arts and the history of painting in particular. Drawing on the work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, On Ghost Trio demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art. In doing so Conor Carville develops a new and highly original reading of Beckett's art, rooted in both archival sources and philosophical aesthetics.

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213696
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by : Wimbush Andy

Download or read book Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism written by Wimbush Andy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.

Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460803
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image by : Anthony Uhlmann

Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image written by Anthony Uhlmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett often made use of images from the visual arts and readapted them, staging them in his plays, or using them in his fiction. Anthony Uhlmann sets out to explain how an image differs from other terms, like 'metaphor' or 'representation', and, in the process, to analyse Beckett's use of images borrowed from philosophy and aesthetics. This study, first published in 2006, carefully examines Beckett's thoughts on the image in his literary works and his extensive notes to the philosopher Arnold Geulincx. Uhlmann considers how images might allow one kind of interaction between philosophy and literature, and how Beckett makes use of images which are borrowed from, or drawn into dialogue with, philosophical images from Geulincx, Berkeley, Bergson, and the ancient Stoics. Uhlmann's reading of Beckett's aesthetic and philosophical interests provides a revolutionary reading of the importance of the image in his work.

Aesthetic Nervousness

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511175
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Aesthetic Nervousness by : Ato Quayson

Download or read book Aesthetic Nervousness written by Ato Quayson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied that the body is provisional and temporary and that normality is wrapped up in certain social frameworks. Quayson expands his argument by turning to Greek and Yoruba writings, African American and postcolonial literature, depictions of deformed characters in early modern England and the plays of Shakespeare, and children's films, among other texts. He considers how disability affects interpersonal relationships and forces the character and the reader to take an ethical standpoint, much like representations of violence, pain, and the sacred. The disabled are also used to represent social suffering, inadvertently obscuring their true hardships.

Pop Beckett

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Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838211930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Pop Beckett by : Paul Stewart

Download or read book Pop Beckett written by Paul Stewart and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Samuel Beckett's work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno among others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Beckett's work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between his work and popular culture. Beckett used popular cultural forms; but popular culture has also found a place both for the work and for the man. This collection of essays examines how popular cultural forms and media are woven into the fabric of Beckett's works and how Beckett continues to have far-reaching impact on popular culture today in a host of different forms, in film and on television, from comics to meme culture, tourism to marketing.

Arts of Impoverishment

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Arts of Impoverishment by : Leo Bersani

Download or read book Arts of Impoverishment written by Leo Bersani and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing does? Why discourage us from seeing, as Mark Rothko's paintings often can? Why immobilize and daze us, as Alain Resnais' films sometimes will? Why, Leo Bersnai and Ulysse Dutoit ask, would three acknowledged masters of their media make work deliberately opaque and inhospitable to an audience? This book shows how such crippling moves may signal a profoundly original - and profoundly anti-modernist - renunciation of art's authority.