The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399567534)

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The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations

$24.95

The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volume
The Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. It is divided into two sections, 'Foul Papers: Archives and Sources' and 'Fair Papers: Theories and Translations', together with the editor's Introduction. It contains work by some of the world's leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Weller and Mary Bryden) and reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the 'new pragmatism' within Beckett Studies.
Key Features
* Gathers 5 strongly textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett's texts
* Includes 2 theoretically informed essays by major French philosophers, Bruno Clément and Alain Badiou
* Includes studies of Beckett's Italian translations
* Brings together in one place archival and source material, high quality original research and theoretically informed analysis



Author: S. E. Gontarski
ISBN-10: 1399567535
ISBN-13: 9781399567534
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d
By S. E. Gontarski
By S. E. Gontarski
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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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