Overview
This special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is devoted to Beckett's intensive relationship with German culture. It consists of two parts: on the one hand it assesses Beckett's attitude towards German literature, art and philosophy; on the other hand it highlights a few important instances in the reception of Beckett's work in Germany. As a reader of German literature and as an aspiring art critic, Beckett went to Germany at an extremely tumultuous and dangerous period in the country's political and cultural history. The volume contains a complete chronology of this journey in 1936-37. It also investigates Beckett's attitude towards German Romanticism, from both a literary and a philosophical perspective.In the reception of Beckett's works, Theodor W. Adorno's 'Versuch, das Endspiel zu verstehen' plays a central role. The volume presents a translation of Adorno's notes on Fin de partie and L'Innommable, with accompanying analyses, focusing on Beckett's direction of Endspiel and his relationship with the Sddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR). Finally, the volume closes with review essays on a selection from the vast amount of recent German publications on Beckett. In this way, the thematic issue promotes the cross-fertilisation between research communities working on Beckett in different languages.
Full Product Details
Author: Mark Nixon (Associate Professor in Modern Literature, University of Reading) ,
Dirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Volume: v. 19, no. 2
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780748641390
ISBN 10: 0748641394
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 30 September 2010
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. With Dirk Van Hulle, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies, Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project and editor of the book series 'Elements in Beckett Studies' (CUP). He is also a former President of the Samuel Beckett Society. He has authored or edited more than ten books on Beckett’s work; recent publications include Samuel Beckett’s Library (with Dirk Van Hulle, Cambridge UP, 2013) and the critical edition of Beckett’s short story Echo’s Bones (Faber, 2014). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Beckett’s ‘German Diaries’ (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp, 2022). Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of Literature in English at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies (EUP).
