Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics

Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics
Title Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics PDF eBook
Author Tim Lawrence
Publisher Springer
Pages 250
Release 2018-04-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319753991

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This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

SAMUEL BECKETT'S CRITICAL AESTHETICS.

SAMUEL BECKETT'S CRITICAL AESTHETICS.
Title SAMUEL BECKETT'S CRITICAL AESTHETICS. PDF eBook
Author TIMOTHY. LAWRENCE
Publisher
Pages
Release 2018
Genre Aesthetics
ISBN 9783319754000

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This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work

Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work
Title Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work PDF eBook
Author P. Stewart
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 229
Release 2011-08-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781349291625

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This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking
Title Beckett’s Art of Mismaking PDF eBook
Author Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 209
Release 2016-01-04
Genre Drama
ISBN 0674504852

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Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s lifelong campaign was to mismake on purpose—not to denigrate himself, or his audience, or reconnect with the child or savage within, but because he believed that such mismaking is in the interest of art and will shape its future.

Beckett's Political Imagination

Beckett's Political Imagination
Title Beckett's Political Imagination PDF eBook
Author Emilie Morin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 279
Release 2017-09-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 110841799X

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Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history, showing how this concern informed his work as fiction author, dramatist, critic and translator. This radically new account will appeal to students, researchers and Beckett lovers alike.

Beckett's Thing

Beckett's Thing
Title Beckett's Thing PDF eBook
Author David Lloyd
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 272
Release 2016-09-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474415733

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Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett
Title Samuel Beckett PDF eBook
Author Pascale Casanova
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 129
Release 2020-01-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1786635712

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In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova provides an arresting portrait of Beckett as radically subversive—doing for writing what Kandinsky did for art—and in the process presents the key to some of the most profound enigmas of Beckett’s writing.