Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783838207063)

The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the recent 'empirical turn' in Beckett studies. Characterized, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett's early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyze his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. Falsifying Beckett thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century's leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett's writing as well as 'historicist' scholars and critics of modernism more generally.

Author: Matthew Feldman
ISBN-10: 3838207068
ISBN-13: 9783838207063
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2015
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.70d