New Samuel Beckett Studies

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

List of contents

Editor's introduction Jean-Michel Rabaté; Part I. The Expanded Canon: 1. Digitizing Beckett Dirk van Hulle; 2. 'All the variants' Mark Nixon; 3. Beckett's letters: the edition and the corpus Daniel Gunn; 4. The evolution of Beckett's poetry Marjorie Perloff; Part II. New Contexts and Intertexts: 5. Beckett's critique of literature John Bolin; 6. Beckett, political memory, and the sense of history Emilie Morin; 7. Samuel Beckett as contemporary artist Judith Wilkinson; 8. Beckett, radio and the voice Llewellyn Brown; Part III. New Hermeneutic Codes: 9. Beckett's queer art of failure Calvin Thomas; 10. Beckett, nerve theory and literary form Ulrika Maude; 11. Beckett's disabled language Laura Salisbury; 12. Beckett and mathematics Baylee Brits; 13. Beckett's bilingual explorations Nadia Louar; 14. Waiting for Godot among the prisoners Lance Duerfahrd.

About the author

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, a curator of Slought Foundation, an editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, former President of the Samuel Beckett society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has authored or edited more than thirty-five books on modernism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Recent publications include Rust (2018), Kafka L.O.L. (2018), and the edited volume After Derrida (Cambridge, 2018).

Summary

Combining new approaches and methods of interpretation to an expanding canon that has brought us new letters, drafts and notebooks, this collection aims to present the most accurate and varied map of new Beckett studies.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania) Rabate
• Assisted by: Jean-Michel Rabate (Editor), Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania) Rabate (Editor), Jean-Michel Rabaté (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108471855
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47185-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First Century Critical; Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights