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Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year period
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career. Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett's debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett's creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way. Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.
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S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University. He is the author and editor of many publications the most recent of which are: Burroughs Unbound: William Burroughs and the Performance of Writing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater (Anthem Impact Books, 2021). He is also the author of Beckett Matters: Essays on Beckett's Late Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and the editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
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