Beckett S Imagined Interpreters And The Failures Of Modernism
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Beckett S Imagined Interpreters And The Failures Of Modernism
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Author : Nick Wolterman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-07-20
Beckett S Imagined Interpreters And The Failures Of Modernism written by Nick Wolterman and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now such concerns have remained the stuff of scholarly footnotes and asides. Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism addresses these issues head-on and investigates how Beckett’s ideas about who he writes for affect what he writes. What it finds speaks to current understandings not only of Beckett’s techniques and ambitions, but also of modernism’s experiments as fundamentally compromised challenges to enshrined ways of understanding and organizing the social world. Beckett’s uniquely anxious audience-targeting brings out similarly self-doubting strategies in the work of other experimental twentieth-century writers and artists in whom he is interested: his corpus proves emblematic of a modernism that understands its inability to achieve transformative social effects all at once, but that nevertheless judiciously complicates too-neat distinctions drawn within ongoing culture wars. For its re-evaluations of four key points of orientation for understanding Beckett’s artistic ambitions—his arch critical pronouncements, his postwar conflations of value and valuelessness, his often-ambiguous self-commentary, and his sardonic metatheatrical play—as well as for its running dialogue with wider debates around modernism as a social phenomenon, this book is of interest to students and researchers interested in Beckett, modernism, and the relations between modern and contemporary artistic and social developments.
Beckett Modernism And The Material Imagination
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Author : Steven Connor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Beckett Modernism And The Material Imagination written by Steven Connor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Drama categories.
This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett's writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.
Beckett Matters
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Author : S.E. Gontarski
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Beckett Matters written by S.E. Gontarski and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career.a Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett's debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett's creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way.a Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.
Samuel Beckett
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Author : Anthony Cronin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Samuel Beckett written by Anthony Cronin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Authors, French categories.
Time And Modernism In Samuel Beckett S Waiting For Godot
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Author : Lindsey McIntosh
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-04-13
Time And Modernism In Samuel Beckett S Waiting For Godot written by Lindsey McIntosh and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 73, University of Strathclyde, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: At the turn of the 20th century, a crisis in Enlightenment humanism had began to emerge; from the ashes of a dying romantic era, a cultural revolution known as the modernist movement arose as ‘a progressive force promising to liberate humankind from ignorance and irrationality’ (Taket and White, p. 869). Weary from the weak, unchanging patterns of Victorian writing, a collection of writers sought to break away from pre-existing ‘dead-end’ methods of creating literature by exploring new styles which were expressed in their prose and poetic works. Placing a greater emphasis upon experimentation, modernist writers took a great interest in purposely disorientating their readership with fragmentation and elements of the absurd. A conscious experimentation with language to express both its powers and limitations became apparent components in a vast body of modern literature. Whilst the previous era embodied a strong connection to nature in the belief this relationship was crucial for man’s development as an individual, modern writers displayed little interest towards the natural world. Instead, an established vein of modern thought developed that progress as an individual was dependent upon directing the eye inward.
Late Modernist Style In Samuel Beckett And Emmanuel Levinas
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Author : P. Fifield
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-03-20
Late Modernist Style In Samuel Beckett And Emmanuel Levinas written by P. Fifield and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Samuel Beckett And Bbc Radio A Reassessment
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Author : David Addyman
language : en
Publisher: New Interpretations of Beckett
Release Date : 2019-04-14
Samuel Beckett And Bbc Radio A Reassessment written by David Addyman and has been published by New Interpretations of Beckett this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nietzsche And Modernism
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Author : Stewart Smith
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Nietzsche And Modernism written by Stewart Smith and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.
Since Beckett
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Author : Peter Boxall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Since Beckett written by Peter Boxall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) categories.
This is a fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence. Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist perio.
Interpreting Narrative In The Novels Of Samuel Beckett
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Author : Jonathan Boulter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Interpreting Narrative In The Novels Of Samuel Beckett written by Jonathan Boulter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Avoiding the pitfalls of the modernist/postmodernist controversy, Boulter goes beyond formalism to situate Beckett's early and mid-career novels on the horizon of understanding. Hermeneutics is brought to bear on Beckett's work in original and previously neglected ways."--Lois Oppenheim, author of The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue with Art Jonathan Boulter's study argues that Samuel Beckett's novels not only thematize the reading process but in various ways are "about" the reader and the process of interpretation, or hermeneutics, as well. Building on seminal work by H. Porter Abbott and others whose first premises have been largely passed over by the Beckett critical community, he reads the early to middle novels of Beckett (Watt; Mercier and Camier; Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable; and How It Is) in the light of phenomenological-hermeneutical theory, primarily that of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Boulter demonstrates how Beckett's novels illustrate and examine issues central to philosophical hermeneutics: the notion that the self inhabits or is inhabited by a linguistic world, that one must understand one's condition through language, that the self is ultimately at a distance from itself because it is mediated by language. Boulter reveals that Beckett's texts are inhabited by narrators and characters who are allegorized versions of the actual reader. Adapting such concepts as Gadamer's "conversation" and "phronesis" and Ricoeur's "appropriation," Boulter works through the major novels showing how each is, in turn, a stage of Beckett's development of the subject. From an exploration of the relation between the title character's failing language and the obligations of the reader in the face of an unreadable discourse in Watt to an explication of a generalized thematization of the hermeneutics of being in How It Is, Boulter charts a middle course between the allegorical and textual extremes of contemporary Beckett criticism. He shows that these novels, in short, are about the philosophical-hermeneutical grounds of understanding, a theme that has received scant attention in Beckett criticism. Beyond his account of the novels, Boulter offers a concluding chapter that points the way to a fruitful hermeneutical analysis of Beckett's drama and later prose (Endgame, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho). Jonathan Boulter is assistant professor of English at Saint Francis Xavier University and has contributed articles to Samuel Beckett: A Casebook, Literature Interpretation Theory, and Cultural Critique, among other publications.