Beckett's Voices / Voicing Beckett

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46839-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g

Reihe: Themes in Theatre

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and performance cultures. Twenty-one contributors, all members of the Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, discuss the musicality of Beckett’s voices, the voice as ‘absent other’, the voices of the vulnerable, the cinematic voice, and enacted voices in performance and media. The volume engages not only with Beckett’s history and legacy, but also with many of the central theoretical issues in theatre studies as a whole. Featuring testimonies from Beckett practitioners as well as emerging and established scholars, it is emblematic of the thriving and diverse community that is twenty-first century Beckett Studies.

Contributors: Svetlana Antropova, Linda Ben-Zvi, Jonathan Bignell, Llewellyn Brown, Julie Campbell, Thirthankar Chakraborty, Laurens De Vos, Everett C. Frost, S. E. Gontarski, Mariko Hori Tanaka, Nicholas E. Johnson, Kumiko Kiuchi, Anna McMullan, Melissa Nolan, Cathal Quinn, Arthur Rose, Teresa Rosell Nicolás, Jürgen Siess, Anna Sigg, Yoshiko Takebe, Michiko Tsushima

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

De Vos, Laurens

Hori Tanaka, Mariko

Johnson, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

‘All the Dead Voices’: Introduction
Laurens De Vos, Mariko Hori Tanaka and Nicholas E. Johnson

Listening to the Inner Voice in Watt: Innovations in Narrative Form
Julie Campbell

Musicality of Voices

Sound Matters in Beckett
Linda Ben-Zvi

Revealing the Limit of Language in Relation to Music
Michiko Tsushima

Embers: A Polyphonic Piece for Radio
Jürgen Siess

Voices of an Absent Other

Samuel Beckett, Quickening the ‘Dead Voices’: From Waiting for Godot to That Time
Llewellyn Brown

Scratching the Surface: The Dramaturgical Oxymoron in Beckett’s Silences
Laurens De Vos

Why Is ‘Listener’ Named ‘Souvenant’?: The Role of the Spectator in a Bilingual Reading of That Time/Cette fois
Kumiko Kiuchi

Un-bodied Voices, the Thing Itself and Beckett’s Neural Theatre
S. E. Gontarski

Voices of the Vulnerable

Pacing as Repressed Memory of Embodiment and Enactment in Footfalls
Svetlana Antropova

‘Rock Her Off’: The Paradoxical Tension of the Split Voice in Rockaby
Teresa Rosell Nicola´s

Technology and the Voices of the More than Human in Beckett’s All That Fall
Anna McMullan

A Creamy Work: Schiller and Beckett
Arthur Rose

Cinematic Voices

Filmic Perspectives in Speaker’s Narrative of A Piece of Monologue
Mariko Hori Tanaka

Cinematic Adaptations of Beckett’s Breath
Anna Sigg

Translating Silence: Ashish Avikunthak’s Cinematographic Version of Come and Go
Thirthankar Chakraborty
Enacted Voices in Performance and Media

Without Colour: Beckett and the Stage Voice
Nicholas E. Johnson and Cathal Quinn

Beckett in Performance: The Body of a Beckettian Actor
Melissa Nolan

Translating Beckett’s Voices in Different Cultures
Yoshiko Takebe

Articulations of Voice and Medium in Beckett’s Screen Work
Jonathan Bignell

All That Fall as a Case Study in the Possibilities and Problematics of Re-routing Samuel Beckett’s Radio Plays for Performance in Other Media
Everett C. Frost

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laurens De Vos is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He authored Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater: Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, and Sarah Kane (2011) and Shakespeare (2016). He edited Sarah Kane in Context (2010).

Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. She has published widely on Samuel Beckett and has co-edited Samuel Beckett and Pain (2012), Samuel Beckett and Trauma (2018) and Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing (2020).

Nicholas E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, where he co-directs the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies. His publications include Experimental Beckett (2020), Bertolt Brecht’s David Fragments (2020) and two special issues of the Journal of Beckett Studies (2014, 2020).