Overview

This collection explains developments within Beckett studies and why he has emerged as one of the most iconic writers of the twentieth century. It also proposes a new interpretive framework that explores both the expanded canon, which has doubled the volume of his works in the last ten years, and the new methods used to approach it. This book covers all the most recent approaches to the Beckett study, such as archival research, queer theory, mathematical readings of literature, neuro-scientific approaches, translation studies, and disability studies. These new approaches are shown to be relevant and necessary to provide a renewed understanding of the lasting value of Beckett's works.

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Author:   Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781108471855

ISBN 10:   1108471854
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   04 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Editor's introduction Jean-Michel Rabaté; Part I. The Expanded Canon: 1. Digitizing Beckett Dirk van Hulle; 2. 'All the variants' Mark Nixon; 3. Beckett's letters: the edition and the corpus Daniel Gunn; 4. The evolution of Beckett's poetry Marjorie Perloff; Part II. New Contexts and Intertexts: 5. Beckett's critique of literature John Bolin; 6. Beckett, political memory, and the sense of history Emilie Morin; 7. Samuel Beckett as contemporary artist Judith Wilkinson; 8. Beckett, radio and the voice Llewellyn Brown; Part III. New Hermeneutic Codes: 9. Beckett's queer art of failure Calvin Thomas; 10. Beckett, nerve theory and literary form Ulrika Maude; 11. Beckett's disabled language Laura Salisbury; 12. Beckett and mathematics Baylee Brits; 13. Beckett's bilingual explorations Nadia Louar; 14. Waiting for Godot among the prisoners Lance Duerfahrd.

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Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, a curator of Slought Foundation, an editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, former President of the Samuel Beckett society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has authored or edited more than thirty-five books on modernism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Recent publications include Rust (2018), Kafka L.O.L. (2018), and the edited volume After Derrida (Cambridge, 2018).

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