The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts

Editor: Gontarski, S.E.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Single-User Purchase Price: $241.00
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ISBN: 978-0-74-867568-5
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count: 17
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This Companion captures the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Becketts work world-wide.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism — The Questions We Ask - S. E. Gontarski
  • Part 1: Art and Aesthetics
  • 1 ‘Deux Besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma - C. J. Ackerley
  • Plates
  • 2 ‘Siege Laid Again’: Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage - David Lloyd
  • 3 Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot - Ulrika Maude
  • 4 Pain Degree Zero - Sam Slote
  • Part 2: Fictions
  • 5 Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels - Paul Stewart
  • 6 A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Three Novels - Andrew V. McFeaters
  • 7 Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett's Short Prose - Tomasz Wiśniewski
  • Part 3: A European Context
  • 8 French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945—52 - Andrew Gibson
  • 9 Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing - John Pilling
  • 10 Beckett's Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation - Jean-Michel Rebaté
  • 11 Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialogue - Anthony Uhlmann
  • 12 Gloria SMH and Beckett's Linguistic Encryptions - Laura Salisbury
  • 13 ‘I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’ (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde - Peter Fifield
  • 14 Beckett and Contemporary French Literature - Sjef Houppermans
  • Part 4: An Irish Context
  • 15 The ‘Irish’ Translation of Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot - Anthony Roche
  • 16 Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in 1930s Dublin - Emilie Morin
  • 17 ‘Bid Us Sigh On from Day to Day’: Beckett and the Irish Big House - Seàn Kennedy
  • Part 5: Film, Radio and Television
  • 18 A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy - Graley Herren
  • 19 ‘The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett's Radio Plays - Everett C. Frost
  • Part 6: Language/Writing
  • 20 ‘Was That a Point?’: Beckett's Punctuation - Steven Connor
  • 21 Beckett's Unpublished Canon - Mark Nixon
  • 22 Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship - Dirk Van Hulle
  • 23 Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading - Adam Piette
  • Part 7: Philosophies
  • 24 Beckett and Philosophy - Matthew Feldman
  • 25 ‘Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental Empiricism - S. E. Gontarski
  • 26 Beckett, Modernism and Christianity - Erik Tonning
  • Part 8: Theatre and Performance
  • 27 ‘Oh Lovely Art’: Beckett and Music - David Tucker
  • 28 Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake in Beckett's Catastrophe - Laura Peja
  • 29 Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett's ‘A Piece of Monologue’ Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce - John Paul Riquelme
  • 30 Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert's Contribution to Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Aesthetics - Anna McMullan
  • 31 Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude — Beckett's Endgame - Annamaria Cascetta
  • 32 Performing the Formless - Geneviève Chevallier
  • Part 9: Global Beckett
  • 33 ‘Facing Other Windows’: Beckett in Brazil - Fàbio de Souza Andrade
  • 34 Beckett in Belgrade - Predrag Todorovic
  • 35 ‘Struggling With a Dead Language’: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s - Mariko Hori Tanaka
  • List of Contributors