Samuel Beckett

History, Memory, Archive
2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-61944-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century

This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett as a figure that cannot be read historically by drawing on new archival materials and situating his finished works in their historical context.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, S.

Weiss, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beckett in History, Memory, Archive; S.Kennedy & K.Weiss Between Gospel and Prohibition: Beckett in Nazi Germany 1936-1937; M.Nixon Beckett's 'Brilliant Obscurantics': Watt and the Problem of Propaganda; J.McNaughton 'Faintly Struggling Things': Trauma, Testimony and Inscrutable Life in Beckett's The Unnamable; A.Garrison Beckett's Theatre 'After Auschwitz'; J.Blackman Samuel Beckett, the Archive, and the Problem of History; R.Reginio Archives of the End: Embodied History in Beckett's Plays; J.Boulter 'Humanity in Ruins': The Historical Body in Beckett's Fiction; K.Weiss Does Beckett Studies Require a Subject? Mourning Ireland in the Texts for Nothing; S.Kennedy Writing Relics: Mapping the Composition History of Beckett's Endgame; D.Van Hulle 'Agnostic Quietism' and Samuel Beckett's Early Development; M.Feldman

Über Autor(innen)

SEÁN KENNEDY is Assistant Professor of English at St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.   KATHERINE WEISS is Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, USA.