This is an affectionate yet clear-eyed biography of Beckett, written by poet, broadcaster and comic novelist Anthony Cronin. Whilst recognising Beckett's achievements, Cronin attempts to look beyond the myths and...
Beckett criticism is well known for its use of impenetrable jargon in describing the themes in his famous novels, poems and especially his seminal plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame. This book is a decided contrast.
This book challenges two of the most commonly held assumptions about Samuel Beckett.
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.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
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 ...
This is stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory.
Samuel Beckett: Rebels and Exiles in His Plays
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Die Studie untersucht die synästhetischen Wechselbeziehungen und Sinnes-Koppelungen in Bec ketts Texten und Medienspielen. Samuel Beckett stand zunächst unter dem Einfluss der literarischen Avantgarden, nahm aber schon früh den Dialog...
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 ...
... Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama and Early Fiction. New York: StMartin's Press (1997) Acheson, James, Arthur, Kateryna (eds) Beckett's Later Fiction andDrama:Texts for Company. London: Macmillan (1987) ...
A full-length study of Samuel Beckett by author Ruby Cohn that intertwines careful analysis with biographical, translation and publishing information to illuminate and explain Beckett's paradoxes.
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Samuel Beckett.
Samuel Beckett