Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Beckett : history, memory, archive / edited by Seán Kennedy and Katherine Weiss.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kennedy, Seán, 1974-
• Weiss, Katherine.

Description

x, 226 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett's engagement with history. As the first full-length volume to address the historical debate in Beckett studies, Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive provides both ground-breaking analysis of the major works as well as a sustained interrogation of the critical assumptions that underpin Beckett studies more generally. Drawing on a range of archival materials, and situating Beckett in historical context, these essays pose a strong challenge to the prevailing critical consensus that he was a deracinated modernist who cannot be read historically."--Jacket.

Series Statement

New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century

Uniform Title

New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century

Subject

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989
• Beckett, Samuel > Motiv > Geschichte
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Beckett, Samuel
• 1900-2000
• 18.05 English literature
• 18.25 French literature
• Literature
• Geschichtsdenken

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Does Beckett studies require a subject? Mourning Ireland in the Texts for Nothing / Seán Kennedy -- Between gospel and prohibition: Beckett in Nazi Germany 1936-1937 / Mark Nixon -- Beckett's "Brilliant Obscurantics": Watt and the problem of propaganda / James McNaughton -- Beckett's theatre "After Auschwitz" / Jackie Blackman -- "Faintly struggling things": trauma, testimony, and inscrutable life in Beckett's The Unnamable / Alysia E. Garrison -- Samuel Beckett, the archive, and the problem of history / Robert Reginio -- Archives of the end: embodied history in Samuel Beckett's plays / Jonathan Boulter -- "Humanity in ruins": the historical body in Samuel Beckett's fiction / Katherine Weiss -- Writing relics: mapping the composition history of Beckett's Endgame / Dirk Van Hulle -- "Agnostic quietism" and Samuel Beckett's early development / Matthew Feldman.

ISBN

• 0230619444
• 9780230619449

LCCN

2009012212

OCLC

• ocn316829390
• 316829390
• SCSB-14575649

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library