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Quotidian Beckett - Art Of Everyday Life

by Patrick (Arizona State University) Bixby

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 Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. His writing demonstrates an enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption. This Element seeks to comprehend how Beckett's writing invites us to see the mundane in unfamiliar, unsettling, and politically charged ways.
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Beckett And Leopardi

by Peter (New York University) Nicholls e Peter (University Of Oxford) Boxall

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 This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence.
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Beckett And Leopardi

by Peter (New York University) Nicholls e Peter (University Of Oxford) Boxall

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 This Element revisits the relation between Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. It suggests that Leopardi becomes increasingly important for Beckett, not only because he frames a literary philosophy of scepticism, but because he gives a rich account of the means by which thoroughgoing pessimism might open on to an unenchanted mode of persistence.
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Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

by Emilie (University Of York) Morin

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 This Element offers a full portrait of Suzanne Beckett, nÃ©e DÃ©chevaux-Dumesnil (1900â€"1989). It mentions the texts she wrote under the name Suzanne Dumesnil, emphasises the significance of her artistic and literary accomplishments, and discusses her steady labour, her uncompromising discretion, and her profound reluctance to become a public figure.
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Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

by Emilie (University Of York) Morin

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 This Element offers a full portrait of Suzanne Beckett, nÃ©e DÃ©chevaux-Dumesnil (1900â€"1989). It mentions the texts she wrote under the name Suzanne Dumesnil, emphasises the significance of her artistic and literary accomplishments, and discusses her steady labour, her uncompromising discretion, and her profound reluctance to become a public figure.
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Beckett And Derrida

by James (Lyon College) Martell

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 This Element explores the connection between Beckett and Derrida's oeuvres, focusing on their shared historical and personal contexts. It explores their engagement with beginnings, origins, genetic grounds, and critiques of sovereignty, revealing why Derridean deconstruction mirrors Beckett's literary achievements.
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Pilgrim'S Gress: The Beckett Walk

by Andre (Concordia University) Furlani

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 Samuel Beckett's literary pedestrianism transitions from Romanticism and Edwardian autonomy to mutuality and transitory being. The walk serves as a motif, rhythm, compositional principle, and ontology. This Element examines the Beckett walk using cognitive, materialities, environmental, infrastructure, cultural, and performance studies.
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Pilgrim'S Gress: The Beckett Walk

by Andre (Concordia University) Furlani

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 Samuel Beckett's literary pedestrianism transitions from Romanticism and Edwardian autonomy to mutuality and transitory being. The walk serves as a motif, rhythm, compositional principle, and ontology. This Element examines the Beckett walk using cognitive, materialities, environmental, infrastructure, cultural, and performance studies.
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Beckett And Derrida

by James (Lyon College) Martell

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 This Element explores the connection between Beckett and Derrida's oeuvres, focusing on their shared historical and personal contexts. It explores their engagement with beginnings, origins, genetic grounds, and critiques of sovereignty, revealing why Derridean deconstruction mirrors Beckett's literary achievements.
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Bad Godots - 'Vladimir Emerges From The Barrel' And Other Interventions

by S. E. Gontarski

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 This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. It focuses on the hybrid genre of theatre where collective esthetics tends to override and so to supersede individual creation.
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Beckett And Cioran

by Steven (University Of Reading) Matthews

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 This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Aspects of Cioran's conclusion about the formal nature that philosophy must assume chime with some of the formal decisions taken by Beckett in the mid-late prose.
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Beckett And Cioran

by Steven (University Of Reading) Matthews

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 This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Aspects of Cioran's conclusion about the formal nature that philosophy must assume chime with some of the formal decisions taken by Beckett in the mid-late prose.
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Bad Godots - Â€˜Vladimir Emerges From The Barrel' And Other Interventions

by S. E. (Florida State University) Gontarski

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 This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. It focuses on the hybrid genre of theatre where collective esthetics tends to override and so to supersede individual creation.
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Bad Godots - Â€˜Vladimir Emerges From The Barrel' And Other Interventions

by S. E. (Florida State University) Gontarski

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 This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. It focuses on the hybrid genre of theatre where collective esthetics tends to override and so to supersede individual creation.
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Insufferable: Beckett, Gender And Sexuality - Beckett, Gender And Sexuality

by Daniela (The University Of Manchester) Caselli

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 This Element brings to Beckett questions that have emerged from gender, queer, and trans theory, engages with the history of feminism and sexuality studies, and develops a theoretical framework able to account for what we have previously overlooked, underplayed, and misinterpreted in Beckett.
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Beckett And Stein

by Georgina Nugent

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Beckett And Stein

by Georgina (Universitat Wien, Austria) Nugent

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 This Element is for scholars of Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and literary modernism. It is of interest to those looking to understand Beckett's bilingual development and aesthetics, and to those looking to redress the absence of female authors from studies of Beckett's influences by introducing Stein as a key figure.
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Carnivals Of Ruin - Beckett, Ireland, And The Festival Form

by Trish (Queen'S University Belfast) Mctighe

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 This Element examines Beckett's dissidence in the face of the imperatives of nation, home and the canon, utilising Beckett's work in festival contexts to highlight in the negative the nature of the festival form and to critique the festivalisation of culture.
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Absorption And Theatricality - On Ghost Trio

by Conor Carville

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 Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art.
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Absorption And Theatricality - On Ghost Trio

by Conor Carville

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 Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art.
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Beckett'S Intermedial Ecosystems - Closed Space Environments Across The Stage, Prose And Media Works

by Anna (University Of Reading) Mcmullan

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 This Element draws on the concept of ecosystems to investigate selected Beckett works across different media which present worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation: rather Beckett's human figures are trapped in a regulated system in which they have little agency.
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Samuel Beckett And Cultural Nationalism

by Shane (University Of Kent, Canterbury) Weller

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 Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism explores Beckett's engagement with the theme of cultural nationalism throughout his writing life, revealing the various ways in which he sought to challenge culturally nationalist conceptions of art and literature, while never embracing a cosmopolitan approach.
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Samuel Beckett And Cultural Nationalism

by Shane Weller

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Samuel Beckett And Cultural Nationalism

by Shane Weller

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 Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism explores Beckett's engagement with the theme of cultural nationalism throughout his writing life, revealing the various ways in which he sought to challenge culturally nationalist conceptions of art and literature, while never embracing a cosmopolitan approach.
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