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Author : Iain Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett, Intertextuality and the Bible written by Iain Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781474250252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett and The Bible written by Iain Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Waiting for Godot to such later novels as Ill Seen, Ill Said, the work of Samuel Beckett is filled with Biblical references. Samuel Beckett and the Bible re-appraises the relationships between Beckett's work and the Bible, exploring both as objects of history, matter and memory. Iain Bailey ranges across the Beckett oeuvre to examine how the Bible has come to be regarded as a book of unique significance in his work, offering innovative readings of intertextuality and influence in both published and archival writings. Beckett's Bibles, the book demonstrates, are thoroughly material, as significant for their involvement in histories of education, the family, common knowledge and canon-formation as for what they have to say about God, hope and salvation. The book explores Beckett's uneasy forms of memory, materiality, language and history to assess how far and in what ways the Bible matters in his work, and why Beckett's voice 'harps, but no worse than Holy Writ.'
Author : John Calder
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545554
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Theology of Samuel Beckett written by John Calder and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his family and education instilled in him, which as an adult he could neither accept nor reject, he used it extensively in his novels, plays and poetry. Beckett's works also explored philosophy and the imaginative world of Dante and Milton, as well as the theories of Darwin and scientific speculation, in order to create a literature that investigates human destiny more deeply and originally than any other writer had done before.In this, his second book about the essence and depth of Samuel Beckett's thinking and literary art, John Calder analyses the dualism of Beckett's theological writing, his debt to the Gnostics, Manichaeism and Geulincx in particular, the presence of ghosts in his work, and why his late writing has received so little attention compared to the early and middle periods. It will open up the much underestimated Beckett to deeper understanding and provide enjoyment to the many who have become convinced that this once derided author is one of the major literary figures of his time.
Author : Mary Bryden
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333640760
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God written by Mary Bryden and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Bryden examines the recurring engagement with the idea of God to be found in the writing of Samuel Beckett. Drawing from the evidence of Beckett's published novels, plays, poetry and short prose, as well as from unpublished and draft manuscript material, Bryden explores both rehearsals and rejections of belief. Areas for focus include Old Testament resonances, New Testament images (such as crucifixion), theology, mysticism, the church, and the arguably surprising attachment of Beckett to certain writers (Dante, Johnson) who espoused strong Christian beliefs.
Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001269
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Library written by Dirk Van Hulle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.
Author : James Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135011233X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett in Confinement written by James Little and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Daniela Caselli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796303
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Beckett's Dantes written by Daniela Caselli and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett's work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett's fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett's published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). Through a close reading of Beckett's fiction and criticism, the book will argue that Dante is both assumed as an external source of literary and cultural authority in Beckett's work, and also participates in Beckett's texts' sceptical undermining of authority. Moreover, the book demonstrates that the many references to various 'Dantes' produce 'Mr Beckett' as the figure of the author responsible for such a remarkably interconnected oeuvre. The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon.
Author : Helene Louise Baldwin
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Real Silence written by Helene Louise Baldwin and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Christian symbolism throughout a major portion of Beckett's mature work (particularly Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Watt, Not I, The Lost Ones, and Waiting for Godot), this book argues that Beckett is a writer of deep religious concern, not in the orthodox sense but in a sense fully as time honored. The path to "direct experience of Absolute of Unconditional Being" is traced through the classic stages of the quest (detachment, darkness, silence, trance, illumination, and revelation) with examples from both the content and structure of the works. A final chapter distinguishes among the several ironic tones that Beckett employs to reveal the profound reverence that is so often misread as cynicism. It is fitting that an author so frequently discussed in religious terms (his 1969 Nobel award cited him for singing the dies irae of the human race) should finally be read as a religious writer. Samuel Beckett's writing, with its rich, dark ambiguity, has been widely acknowledged for its brilliance, but variously interpreted in its meaning. Nearly all critics recognize the religious allusions and symbols present throughout the Beckettian oeuvre, but few have attempted to come to terms with them, preferring to regard these recurring themes and images as atheistic irony. This book addresses that deficiency by arguing that Beckett's major works "may be seen as a cumulative metaphor for the mystic quest," specifically the "negative way" of renunciation that stands in contrast to the affirmative orthodoxy of T.S. Eliot, for example. Dr. Baldwin accomplishes this task by citing the many echoes within Beckett's prose of the great Christian mystics of history--Augustine, Pascal, Langland, Dante--many of whom are clearly the sources drawn upon in Beckett's non-stop allusiveness, and by demonstrating Beckett's parallels with modern Christian mystics, especially Simone Weil , whose themes in Waiting for God are hauntingly evoked in Waiting for Godot and much of the rest of the Beckettian canon.
Author : Anthony Cordingley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474440622
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett's How It Is written by Anthony Cordingley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiques.
Author : Marius Buning
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042013940
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Beckett and Religion written by Marius Buning and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book An Ancient Voice in Me Not Mine written by Paul Shields and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre-Alexis Mével
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034301282
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Language Et Ses Contexts written by Pierre-Alexis Mével and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a postgraduate French studies conference (University of Nottingham, 10 September 2008), this volume explores linguistic form and content in relation to a variety of contexts, considering language alongside music, images, theatre, human experience of the world, and another language. Each essay asks what it is to understand language in a given context, and how, in spite of divergent expressive possibilities, a linguistic situation interacts with other contexts, renegotiating boundaries and redefining understanding. The book lies at the intersection of linguistics and hermeneutics, seeking to (a) contextualise philosophical and linguistic discussions of communication across a range of media and (b) illustrate their intimate relations, despite differing strategies or emphases. Puisant son inspiration dans un colloque de French studies pour doctorants (Université de Nottingham, 10 septembre 2008), cet ouvrage étudie forme et contenu linguistiques en relation avec différents contextes, considérant le langage conjointement avec la musique, les images, le théâtre, l'expérience du monde et un autre langage. Chaque chapitre dissèque la compréhension du langage dans un contexte donné, et se demande comment, en dépit de possibilités expressives divergentes, une situation linguistique interagit avec d'autres contextes, redessinant leurs frontières et redéfinissant la compréhension. Ce livre, situé à l'intersection entre la linguistique et l'herméneutique, a pour but de (a) contextualiser les discussions philosophiques et linguistiques sur la communication dans une gamme de médias et (b) démontrer leur relation intime, malgré des stratégies ou intentions différentes.
Author : Francis William John Annear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Religious Vocabularies and Rituals in Samuel Beckett's Plays written by Francis William John Annear and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690860
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication written by Marcel Danesi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and Media Studies considers the ways in which messages are transmitted and received. This dictionary is designed to help students and general readers unlock the significance of the terminology and jargon commonly used in these fields. Being interdisciplinary in nature, Semiotics, Media, and Communication Studies are cluttered with notions derived from other disciplines. Hence, this dictionary also encompasses basic concepts from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, psychology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computer science, and biology. Collected here are the terms, concepts, personages, schools of thought, and historical movements that appear frequently in the relevant literature. The basis of each entry is a simple definition, which often includes the term's origin. Illustrations are provided where necessary, along with historical sketches of movements or schools of thought. The commentary on personages consists of brief statements about their contribution and relevance. Thus, the dictionary not only defines what a term means, but often goes into its history, applications, and broad implications. Terms are cross-referenced and their etymology is given where possible. This is a compact, practical research manual that will relieve much tension for students in semiotics and related fields. Because of its interdisciplinary approach, it will also provide a range of scholars with a handy reference to disciplines distinct from but related to their own.
Author : Ohio State University. College of Humanities
Publisher : [Columbus, Ohio] : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett--humanistic Perspectives written by Ohio State University. College of Humanities and published by [Columbus, Ohio] : Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antoni Libera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783088942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Dialogues on Beckett written by Antoni Libera and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 includes a judicious balance of basic information about Beckett's life and work, brief sketches of some interpretations of his plays and a few words on the critical reception of each, and sets out some possible criticisms of the vision of the world expressed in them. These last are particularly interesting given the many references and allusions to Christian theology to be found in the plays. They are, admittedly, heavily ironic, but they testify to the importance in Beckett's thought of the Christian vision of the universe and the eschatological dimension of human existence. Beckett, through the radicalism of his thought and his crystalline and very distinctive style, succeeds better perhaps than anyone else in getting at the heart of the disquiet which has marked our age, and he identifies its cause as a metaphysical transformation which is taking place before our eyes. That transformation is the disenchantment of the world. A number of factors have contributed to it; the progress of science is just one among many. But whatever the causes, the sphere of the sacred has lost its power and can no longer explain the course of history. The temple lies in ruins and we have found nothing to supplant it, no new way of making sense of the world and our place in the universe. Western Man has lost his bearings and can see no way forward; beyond the ancient and familiar paths of the Judeo-Christian tradition, increasingly difficult now to return to, lies unknown territory, empty and dark and cold. This state of suspension and disorientation gives rise to a profound disquiet, though we may not always be aware of its nature or its source. NP] An analysis of Samuel Beckett's major plays is an excellent introduction to a broader debate not only on the current state of Western culture and civilization but also, more generally, on the spiritual condition of modern man. The dialogues presented in this volume will inspire readers to reflect on these issues and encourage such a debate.
Author : Barbara Ann Verheyen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Plays as Embodying Gabriel Vahanian's Post-Christian Culture Concepts written by Barbara Ann Verheyen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
