Author: Lois Oppenheim
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Interviews with and essays by twenty-two prominent directors of Samuel Beckett's work

Author: Jonathan Kalb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.

Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674625228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.

Author: Dougald McMillan
Publisher: Riverrun Press
ISBN: 9780714541518
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: James Knowlson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822589
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Essays by Beckett's biographer and friend and hitherto unknown photographs by one of the leading theatre photographers in the field.

Author: N. Bianchini
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137439866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Author: Lois Oppenheim
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472111176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression

Author: Ruby Cohn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472031317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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An indispensable guide to the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, spanning sixty years

Author: Katharine Worth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198187790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The critical discussion highlights the unique fusion on Beckett's stage of cosmic scenery and humorous individualism."--Jacket.

Author: Andrea Oppo
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039118243
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers (especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou) have given to his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth, comes to its complete exhaustion (as Deleuze terms it) by means of a series of 'endgames' that progressively involve philosophy, writing, language and every individual and minimal form of expression. The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of Beckett's philosophical project, this 'aesthetics of truth' turns out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the Self/Voice to the Object/Body. Yet a number of questions remain open. 'What' or 'who' lies behind this process? What is left of the endgame of art and subjectivity? Finally, what sustains and renders possible Beckett's paradoxical axiom of the 'impossibility to express' alongside the 'obligation to express'? By means of a thorough overview of the most recent criticism of Beckett, this book will try to answer these questions.