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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521424134
The world fame of Samuel Beckett is due to a combination of
high academic esteem and immense popularity. An innovator in prose
fiction to rival Joyce, his plays have been the most influential in
modern theatre history. As an author in both English and French and
a writer for the page and the stage, Beckett has been the focus for
specialist treatment in each of his many guises, but there have
been few attempts to provide a conspectus view. This book provides
thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of Beckett’s work,
some paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g.
Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the
‘trilogy’ and Murphy). Other essays tackle his radio and television
drama, his theatre directing and his poetry, followed by more
general issues such as Beckett’s bilingualism and his relationship
to the philosophers. Reference material is provided at the front
and back of the book.
List of contributors
Preface
Chronology of Beckett’s life
List of abbreviations
A note on titles
1. An endgame in aesthetics: Beckett as essayist Rupert Wood
2. Beckett’s English fiction John Pilling
3. Three novels and four nouvelles Paul Davies
4. Waiting for Godot and Endgame: theatre as text Michael
Worton
5. Stages of identity: from Krapp to Play Paul Lawley
6. Beginning again: the post-narrative art of Texts for Nothing and
How It Is H. Porter Abbott
7. The mediated Quixote: the radio and television plays and film
Jonathan Kalb
8. Dead heads: damnation-narration in the ‘dramaticules’ Keir
Elam
9. Disabled figures: from the Residua to Stirrings Still Andrew
Renton
10. Beckett’s poems and verse translations Roger Little
11. Beckett as director: the art of mastering failure Anna
McMullan
12. Beckett’s bilingualism Ann Beer
13. Beckett and the philosophers P. J. Murphy
Further reading
Index
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