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The Transformations of Godot

Author : Frederick Busi
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183995
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Transformations of Godot written by Frederick Busi and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky—the bizarre names stand out strangely against the bare-bones landscape of Waiting for Godot. In an intriguing new study of one of the most haunting plays of this century, Frederick Busi shows that these names serve important dramatic functions, reinforcing the changing roles assumed by the mysterious characters in their tortuous search for—and avoidance of—self. Busi also explores Beckett's convoluted literary relationship with James Joyce, especially as revealed in the plays-within-the-play and verbal jigh jinks of Finnegan's Wake, where, as in Godot, the same characters keep dreamily encountering themselves in different disguises, under shifting names. Beckett's strong affinities with Cervantes and the common debt of these two authors to the traditions of commedia dell'arte lead Busi to important insights into the shifting master-slave relationship so prominent in Godot, as in Don Quixote. The religious implications of Godot—the subject of so much critical debate—are placed in a new perspective by Busi's provocative observation that certain early Christian heretical works and certain books of the Apocrypha contain not only the idea of the Devil/God, Judas/Jesus identifications implied in Godot but also a number of names that Beckett seems to have had in mind when he wrote his play. Rich in linguistic, historical, and psychological learning, Busi's examination of the names in Godot leads the reader to a fuller awareness of Beckett's extraordinarily complex imagination. As Wylie Sypher writes in the foreword, the book is "an invitation to expand our reading of Beckett in many directions."

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441159746
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

Semiotics 1981

Author : John N. Deely
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146159328X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics 1981 written by John N. Deely and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume differs from the volume, Semiotics 1980, in that it is no longer an experimental product, but the result of a permanent commitment of the Semiotic Society of America to publish each year henceforward those papers presented at its Annual Meeting which are submitted to the Secretariat in timely and proper form. Thus Semiotics 1981 marks the beginning, following upon the experimental Semiotics 1980 volume, of an indefinite series of volumes presenting the cross-fertilization of styles, topics, methodologies, and traditions "in which new ideas vie for survival and experiment is at a premium." It is this cross fertilization which is at the heart of the vitality and integration and redistribution of the world of knowledge. The historical value of such a record is obvious. But the more immediate objective of these volumes of annual proceedings is to promote participation in the work of "semioticizing" traditional perspectives and disciplines by providing a forum in which young scholars can meet regularly and find an outlet for their efforts at interdisciplinary thinking which are not always welcome in the journals and proceedings devoted to the promotion only of traditionally specialized perspectives.

British Playwrights, 1956-1995

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507433
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book British Playwrights, 1956-1995 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.

The Autonomous Image

Author : A. J. Prats
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813132334
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Autonomous Image written by A. J. Prats and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-70

Author : Peter Norrish
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349067806
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-70 written by Peter Norrish and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study about the reshaping of tragedy and comedy in serious French drama in the quarter century following World War II. It offers an introduction to the most important plays of the period, which include those of Sartre, Arrabal, Beckett, Ionesco, Camus, Montherlant, Adamov and Genet.

New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-1970

Author : Peter Norrish
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389207467
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book New Tragedy and Comedy in France, 1945-1970 written by Peter Norrish and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction: New Tragedy and Comedy; The Background: From^R La Machine infernale to Huis clos; More Sartre and Camus: Drama, Tragedy and Philosophy; Henry de Montherlant: Tragedy and Morality; Samuel Beckett: New Tragedy; EugÈne Ionesco: New Comedy; Arthur Adamov: Black Satire, Dreams and Politics; Jean Genet: Tragic Masquerades; Fernando Arrabal: Tragic Farce; Conclusion: The Death of Comody?; Select Bibliography; Index

Samuel Beckett

Author : David Pattie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135120323
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by David Pattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-11-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The Absurd. Samuel Beckett is a comprehensive introduction to his life and work as well as an outline of the critical issues surrounding his work. This guidebook leaves judgements up to the student by explaining the full range of often very different critical views and interpretations and offers guides to further reading in each area discussed.

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.

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies

Author : L. Oppenheim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504620
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies written by L. Oppenheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies explores the evolution of critical approaches to Beckett's writing. It will appeal to graduate students (and advance undergraduates) as well as scholars, for it offers both an overview of Beckett studies and investigates current debates within the interdisciplinary critical arena. Each of the contributors is an eminent Beckett specialist who has published widely in the field. The volume contains an introduction, twelve essays and a guide for further reading.

Samuel Beckett

Author : Angela B. Moorjani
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042015999
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Angela B. Moorjani and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Beckett and the quest for meaning (Martin Esslin). - Beckett's tonic laughter (Manfred Pfister). - The magic triangle: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Arno Schmidt (Friedhelm Rathjen). - Beckett performed in Italy (Annamaria Cascetta). - Beckett and synaesthesia (Yoshiki Tajiri). - Beckett versus the reader (Michael Guest).

Literature and Spirit

Author : David Patterson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813130248
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Spirit written by David Patterson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Bakhtin is right," Wayne C. Booth has said, "a very great deal of what we western critics have spent our time on is mistaken, or trivial, or both." In Literature and Spirit David Patterson proceeds from the premise that Bakhtin is right. Exploring Bakhtin's notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a vibrant dialogue with other thinkers, including Foucault, Berdyaev, Gide, Lacan, Levinas, and Heidegger. But he does not stop there. He engages Bakhtin in his own insightful and unique dialogue, meeting the responsibility and taking the risk summoned by dialogue. Literature and Spirit, therefore, is not a typically cool and detached exercise in academic curiosity. Instead, it is a passionate and penetrating endeavor to respond to literature and spirit as the links in life's attachment to life. The author demonstrates that in deciding something about literature, we decide something about the substance and meaning of our lives. Far from being a question of commentary or explication, he argues, our relation to literature is a matter of spiritual life and death. The reader who comes before a literary text encounters the human voice. And Patterson enables his reader to hear that voice in all its spiritual dimensions. Unique in its questions and in its quest, Literature and Spirit addresses an audience that goes beyond the ordinary academic categories. It appeals not only to students of literature, philosophy, and religion, but to anyone who seeks an understanding of spiritual presence and meaning in life. Through his affirmation of what is dear, Patterson responds to the needful question. And in his response he puts the question to his audience: Where are you? Literature and Spirit thus speaks to those who face the task of answering, "Here I am."

Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats

Author : Gordon S. Armstrong
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838751411
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats written by Gordon S. Armstrong and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the many critics who consider W. B. Yeats a dominant influence on Beckett's drama, this study demonstrates that the two are almost diametrically opposed in their theater and that the real bridge to Beckett's art is to be found in the narrative and pictorial creations of the younger Yeats brother, Jack.

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Author : David F. Wells
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802829023
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Above All Earthly Pow'rs written by David F. Wells and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

The Beckett Circle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Beckett Circle written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intercultural Aesthetics in Traditional Chinese Theatre

Author : Wei Feng
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030406350
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Aesthetics in Traditional Chinese Theatre written by Wei Feng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978. Through analyzing both the text and performances of eight adapted plays from William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, this book elaborates on significant changes taking place in playwriting, acting, scenography, and stage-audience relations stemming from intercultural appropriation. As exemplified by each chapter, during the intercultural dialogue of Chinese and foreign elements there exists one-sided dominance by either culture, fusion, and hybridity, which corresponds to the various facets of China’s pursuit of modernity between its traditional and Western influences.

Beckett on File

Author : Virginia Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100037839X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Beckett on File written by Virginia Cooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1985, assembles essential facts on Samuel Beckett and makes vital but elusive information available. It contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer’s plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews, and most importantly, a selection of Beckett’s own comments on their work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries. Other features include a chronology of life and work, a checklist of non-dramatic writings and an annotated bibliography.