Samuel Beckett - History, Memory, Archive

Zusatztext "The essays in this collection! individually and collectively! revitalize Beckett Studies with a fresh transfusion of new ideas.The authors successfully recuperate the Historical Beckett - an artist attuned to! engaged with! and indeed produced by his history." - Graley Herren! Associate Professor of English! Xavier University Informationen zum Autor SEÁN KENNEDY is Assistant Professor of English at St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.   KATHERINE WEISS is Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, USA. Klappentext This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett as a figure that cannot be read historically by drawing on new archival materials and situating his finished works in their historical context. Zusammenfassung This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett as a figure that cannot be read historically by drawing on new archival materials and situating his finished works in their historical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Beckett in History, Memory, Archive; S.Kennedy & K.Weiss Between Gospel and Prohibition: Beckett in Nazi Germany 1936-1937; M.Nixon Beckett's 'Brilliant Obscurantics': Watt and the Problem of Propaganda; J.McNaughton 'Faintly Struggling Things': Trauma, Testimony and Inscrutable Life in Beckett's The Unnamable; A.Garrison Beckett's Theatre 'After Auschwitz'; J.Blackman Samuel Beckett, the Archive, and the Problem of History; R.Reginio Archives of the End: Embodied History in Beckett's Plays; J.Boulter 'Humanity in Ruins': The Historical Body in Beckett's Fiction; K.Weiss Does Beckett Studies Require a Subject? Mourning Ireland in the Texts for Nothing; S.Kennedy Writing Relics: Mapping the Composition History of Beckett's Endgame; D.Van Hulle 'Agnostic Quietism' and Samuel Beckett's Early Development; M.Feldman

List of contents

Beckett in History, Memory, Archive; S.Kennedy & K.Weiss Between Gospel and Prohibition: Beckett in Nazi Germany 1936-1937; M.Nixon Beckett's 'Brilliant Obscurantics': Watt and the Problem of Propaganda; J.McNaughton 'Faintly Struggling Things': Trauma, Testimony and Inscrutable Life in Beckett's The Unnamable; A.Garrison Beckett's Theatre 'After Auschwitz'; J.Blackman Samuel Beckett, the Archive, and the Problem of History; R.Reginio Archives of the End: Embodied History in Beckett's Plays; J.Boulter 'Humanity in Ruins': The Historical Body in Beckett's Fiction; K.Weiss Does Beckett Studies Require a Subject? Mourning Ireland in the Texts for Nothing; S.Kennedy Writing Relics: Mapping the Composition History of Beckett's Endgame; D.Van Hulle 'Agnostic Quietism' and Samuel Beckett's Early Development; M.Feldman

Report

"The essays in this collection, individually and collectively, revitalize Beckett Studies with a fresh transfusion of new ideas.The authors successfully recuperate the Historical Beckett - an artist attuned to, engaged with, and indeed produced by his history." - Graley Herren, Associate Professor of English, Xavier University

Product details

• Authors: Sean Weiss Kennedy, KENNEDY SEAN WEISS KATHERINE
• Assisted by: Kennedy (Editor), S Kennedy (Editor), S. Kennedy (Editor), Sean Kennedy (Editor), Weiss (Editor), Weiss (Editor), K. Weiss (Editor), Katherine Weiss (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780230619449
• ISBN: 978-0-230-61944-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century; New Interpertations of Beckett; New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First; New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century; New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century; New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century; New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First; New Interpertations of Beckett
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Environment, The environment, Theatre Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Beckett;fiction;history of literature;Samuel Beckett;theatre