Myth And Ritual In The Plays Of Samuel Beckett

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Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett

Author : Katherine H. Burkman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838632994
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Katherine H. Burkman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the essays in this collection reflect a sense that Beckett's power as a playwright derives largely from a mythic vision that informs his drama. Their approaches to the definition and use of myth and ritual in his plays vary considerably, however, ranging from the Jungian to the Marxian to the Lacanian, and drawing on the theories of Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Frye, Turner, Girard, Baudrillard, and others.

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

Author : David Pattie
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415202531
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett written by David Pattie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.

Samuel Beckett and Cinema

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472533232
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and Cinema written by Anthony Paraskeva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

Surreal Beckett

Author : Alan Warren Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351592491
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Surreal Beckett written by Alan Warren Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during his early Paris days (1928 - late 1930s) that James Knowlson dubbed them his "Joyce years." But Surrealism and Surrealists rivaled Joyce for Beckett’s early and continuing attention, if not affection, so that Raymond Federman called 1929-45 Beckett’s "surrealist period." Considering both claims, this volume delves deeper into each argument by obscuring the boundaries between theses differentiating studies. These received wisdoms largely maintain that Beckett’s Joycean connection and influence developed a negative impact in his early works, and that Beckett only found his voice when he broke the connection after Joyce’s death. Beckett came to accept his own inner darkness as his subject matter, writing in French and using a first-person narrative voice in his fiction and competing personal voices in his plays. Critics have mainly viewed Beckett’s Surrealist connections as roughly co-terminus with Joycean ones, and ultimately of little enduring consequence. Surreal Beckett argues that both early influences went much deeper for Beckett as he made his own unique way forward, transforming them, particularly Surrealist ones, into resources that he drew upon his entire career. Ultimately, Beckett endowed his characters with resources sufficient to transcend limitations their surreal circumstances imposed upon them.

Beckett in the 1990s

Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051835663
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Beckett in the 1990s written by Marius Buning and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No-thing is Left to Tell

Author : John L. Kundert-Gibbs
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637623
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book No-thing is Left to Tell written by John L. Kundert-Gibbs and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.

The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre

Author : Khaled Besbes
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581129556
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Semiotics of Beckett's Theatre written by Khaled Besbes and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research and Beckett s theatre is one which engages a large spectrum of subjects and concerns that touch upon multiple aspects of human experience. The Beckettian dramatic text, as shall be demonstrated in this book, is a fertile ground for a semiotic investigation that is orchestrated by the profound insights of C. S. Peirce. As it applies semiotics to Beckett s theatre, this book seeks to preserve, communicate and throw into relief those universal values in the playwright s works which remain unchallenged despite every change and every revolution in human societies. What this book will hopefully contribute to the general canon of theatrical studies is its study of the Beckettian dramatic text not as a model of the absurd tradition, but rather as a cultural product whose writer's thinking can scarcely be dissociated from the cultural environment within which it took shape, and whose deciphering requires the use of cultural codes and sub-codes which will undergo detailed examination in the course of analysis, a study that we may so generically call a cultural semiotic study of Beckett.

Beckett and Musicality

Author : Sara Jane Bailes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317175905
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Beckett and Musicality written by Sara Jane Bailes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett’s engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett’s work. In Beckett’s drama and prose writings, the relationship with music plays out in implicit and explicit ways. Several of his works incorporate canonical music by composers such as Schubert and Beethoven. Other works integrate music as a compositional element, in dialogue or tension with text and image, while others adopt rhythm, repetition and pause to the extent that the texts themselves appear to be ’scored’. But what, precisely, does it mean to say that a piece of prose or writing for theatre, radio or screen, is ’musical’? The essays included in this book explore a number of ways in which Beckett’s writings engage with and are engaged by musicality, discussing familiar and less familiar works by Beckett in detail. Ranging from the scholarly to the personal in their respective modes of response, and informed by approaches from performance and musicology, literary studies, philosophy, musical composition and creative practice, these essays provide a critical examination of the ways we might comprehend musicality as a definitive and often overlooked attribute throughout Beckett’s work.

Routledge Library Editions: Beckett

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000807118
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Beckett written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of five previously out-of-print titles examines Samuel Beckett’s works and their impact on the theatre, and on people who came into creative contact with his ideas. His plays are assessed, as are his works for film and television. A titan of original thinking, these books by leading Beckett scholars analyse how his creative vision was expressed and how it revolutionised not just the world of theatre but also of the wider world of the arts.

Filming Beckett's Television Plays

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838752340
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Filming Beckett's Television Plays written by Sidney Homan and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If in the theater the rehearsal process is a way of "discovering" the play, of suggesting alternative readings, would the same hold true if the critic encountered works like Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, or Quad by going through the actual process of filming and then editing them?

Beckett’s Masculinity

Author : J. Jeffers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101461
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Beckett’s Masculinity written by J. Jeffers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.

Theatre on Trial

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134941110
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Theatre on Trial written by Anna McMullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of stage and TV space. Her application of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's work will break new and exciting ground.

Make Sense who May

Author : Robin J. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389207917
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Make Sense who May written by Robin J. Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: The Difficult BirthóAn Image of Utterance in Beckett, Paul Lawley; Less equals MoreóDeveloping Ambiguity in the Drafts of "Come and Go," Rosemary Pountney; Seeing is PerceivingóBeckett's Later Plays and the Theory of Audience Response, Karen L. Laughlin; Mutations of the Soliloquy, "Not I" to "Rockaby," Andrew Kennedy; Anonymity and IndividuationóThe Interrelation of Two Linguistic Functions in "Not I" and "Rockaby," Lois Oppenheim; Walking and Rocking, Ritual Acts in "Footfalls" and "Rockaby," Mary A. Doll; Beckett's Other Trilogyó"Not I," "Footfalls" and "Rockaby," R. Thomas Stone; Perspective in "Rockaby," Jane Alison Hale; Know HappinessóIrony in "Ill Seen Ill Said," Monique Nagem; Reading "That Time," Antoni Libera; The Speech Act in Beckett's "Ohio Impromptu," Kathleen O'Gorman; "Make Sense Who May," A Study of "Catastrophe" and "What Where," Annamaria Sportelli; "Catastrophe" and Dramatic Setting, Hersh Zeifman; A Political Perspective on "Catastrophe," Robert Sandarg; The Quad PiecesóA Screen for the Unseeable, Phyllis Carey. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 30.

Damned to Fame

Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802141255
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Damned to Fame written by James Knowlson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.

The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

Author : John Pilling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825038
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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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.

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521594295
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Beckett: Waiting for Godot written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all aspects of their staging. In this book David Bradby explores the impact of the play and its influence on acting, directing, design, and the role of theatre in society. Bradby begins with an analysis of the play and its historical context. After discussing the first productions in France, Britain and America, he examines subsequent productions in Africa, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, China and Japan. The book assesses interpretations by actors such as Bert Lahr, David Warrilow, Georges Wilson, Barry McGovern and Ben Kingsley, and directors Roger Blin, Susan Sontag, Sir Peter Hall, Luc Bondy, Yukio Ninagawa and Beckett himself. It also contains an extensive production chronology, bibliography and illustrations from major productions.

Critique of Beckett Criticism

Author : Peter John Murphy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781879751934
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Critique of Beckett Criticism written by Peter John Murphy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Beckett criticism in English, French and German. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is an important figure in 20th century literary history: his plays, such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame, have acquired a world-wide reputation, and his novels have proved important touchstones for the critical debates in contemporary literary theory. Born in Dublin, Beckett spent most of his writing life in France and wrote equally well in French and English; his German was also fluent, allowing him to direct hisown plays in German theatres. Any attempt to deal with Beckett must therefore consider the critical response his works have provoked in all three languages. A Critique of Beckett Criticism is the first attempt in book formto give a comprehensive survey of the history and scope of Beckett criticism in French, English, and German. Three parallel chapters examine the three major strands of Beckett criticism, retracing its development using a historical perspective and pointing out different trends, currents and fashions in opinion. Directions for further research are also suggested. P.J. MURPHY is a lecturer in contemporary British literature at the University College of the Cariboo, British Columbia; WERNER HUBER is a professor of English literature at Chemnitz University of Technology; ROLF BREUER is professor of English literature at the University of Paderborn; KONRAD SCHOELL is professor of French literature at the Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt.