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Zusatztext Critiquing naively historicist or biographical interpretations of Beckett's Bible! Bailey deploys a broadly genetic and intertextual approach to the Beckett archive ... As a pervasive and productive cultural force at the time of writing! the Bible's influence suffuses many inexplicit elements of Beckett! he claims. By bringing those energies to light with archival methods! Bailey also helps to illuminate those tacit cultural influences explored by Beckett at the time of writing. Informationen zum Autor Iain Bailey is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. 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.' Zusammenfassung 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.' Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Moaning that the Sparks Fly Upwards1. Recognising the Bible in Beckett2. Read to Me as a Child: Memory, Voice and Religious Feeling3. What Matter: Archive, Chronicle and Signature4. Bawd and Blasphemer from Paris: Nation and Irritation5. The Bible in a Bilingual Oeuvre6. Sum Assess: the Biblical and the Generic7. Terrible Materiality: Script and Holy WritConclusion: Scattered AbroadBibliographyIndex...
