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Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: New Critical Essays Annotated Edition
Author(s): Peter Fifield (Author, Editor), David Addyman (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2013
- Edition: Annotated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1408183617
- ISBN-13: 9781408183618
Book Description
Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett’s work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across Beckett’s work, opening up new avenues of enquiry and association for scholars, students and readers of Beckett’s work.
·a consideration of Beckett’s theatrical notebooks and annotated copies of his plays which provide a unique insight into his attitude toward the staging of his plays, the ways he himself interpreted his texts and approached theatrical practice.
·the French text of the novel Mercier et Camier, which both biographically and aesthetically appeared at a very significant moment in Beckett’s career and indicates a crucial development in his writing
·the matter of tone in Beckett’s drama, offering a new reading of the ways in which this elusive property emerges and can be read in the relationship between published text, canon and performance
Among the subjects covered the volume includes studies of:
·Beckett and the influence of new media 1956-1960
·the influence of silent film on Beckett’s work
·death, loss and Ireland in Beckett’s drama – tracing Irish references in Beckett’s plays from the 1950s and 1960s, including
·a consideration of Beckett’s theatrical notebooks and annotated copies of his plays which provide a unique insight into his attitude toward the staging of his plays, the ways he himself interpreted his texts and approached theatrical practice.
·the French text of the novel Mercier et Camier, which both biographically and aesthetically appeared at a very significant moment in Beckett’s career and indicates a crucial development in his writing
·the matter of tone in Beckett’s drama, offering a new reading of the ways in which this elusive property emerges and can be read in the relationship between published text, canon and performance
Editorial Reviews
Review
Offers a judicious analysis of Lewis’s generically hybrid novel of ideas and art criticism. –The Year’s Work in English Studies
About the Author
Dr David Addyman is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Dr Fifield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford, where he runs the international seminar series Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. He was organiser of the international conference Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive and is the editor of a Samuel Beckett special issue of
Modernism/modernity, the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
