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Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work
across the world following the author’s death in 1989,
Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to
this creative phenomenon. The collection employs interrelated
concepts of adaptation, remediation and appropriation to reflect on
Beckett’s own evolving approach to crossing genre boundaries and
to analyse the ways in which contemporary artists across different
media and diverse cultural contexts – including the UK, Europe,
the USA and Latin America – continue to engage with Beckett. The
book offers fresh insights into how his work has kept inspiring
both practitioners and audiences in the twenty-first century,
operating through methodologies and approaches that aim to
facilitate and establish the study of modern-day adaptations, not
just of Beckett but other (multimedia) authors as well. -- .
This book of collected essays approaches Beckett's work through the
context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition
at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine
'modernism' in connection to concepts such as 'late modernism' or
'postmodernism'. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett
under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre -
encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film - as
a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of 'modernism
after postmodernism' in all its complexity, covering a broad range
of topics spanning Beckett's entire career. In addition to more
thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and
philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of
other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis,
Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon
in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett
studies and modernism studies.
This book of collected essays approaches Beckett's work through the
context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition
at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine
'modernism' in connection to concepts such as 'late modernism' or
'postmodernism'. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett
under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre -
encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film - as
a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of 'modernism
after postmodernism' in all its complexity, covering a broad range
of topics spanning Beckett's entire career. In addition to more
thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and
philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of
other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis,
Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon
in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett
studies and modernism studies.
Bringing together an international and diverse group of scholars,
Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde offers the first in-depth study of
the radio medium's significance as a site of artistic
experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar
period. Covering radio works from the 1950s until the 2010s, the
collection charts how artists across the UK, Europe and North
America continued as well as reacted to the legacies of the
historical avant-garde and modernism, operating within different
national broadcasting contexts, by placing radio in an intermedial
dialogue with prose, poetry, theatre, music and film. In doing so,
the volume explores a wide variety of acoustic genres - radio play,
feature, electroacoustic music, radiophonic poem, radio opera - to
show that the medium deserves to occupy a more central place than
it currently does in studies of literature, (inter)media(lity) and
the (neo-)avant-garde. -- .
This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance
of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day.
Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural
studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other
programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and
German radio.
Originally published in French as Malone meurt in 1951 and later
translated into English by the author himself, Malone Dies is the
second novel of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. The Making of Samuel
Beckett's 'Malone Dies'/'Malone meurt' is a comprehensive reference
guide to the history of the text. The book includes: A complete
descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including
French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages A
critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text,
from its genesis through the process of composition to its full
publication history A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts
online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at
www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital
Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for
Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett
International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin,
USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance
of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day.
Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural
studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other
programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and
German radio.
First performed in 1953, Waiting for Godot is Samuel Beckett's
masterpiece and one of the most important dramatic works of the
20th century. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for
Godot'/'En attendant Godot' is a comprehensive reference guide to
the history of the text. The book includes: A complete descriptive
catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and
English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages A critical
reconstruction of the history of the text, from its genesis through
the process of composition to its full publication history A
detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett
Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume
is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a
collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics
(University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International
Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA),
with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
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