The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.

Dirk Van Hulle (Edited by)

9781107427815, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 January 2015

266 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.36 kg

'… provides a helpful introduction to key issues of the author's work.' J. S. Baggett, Choice

In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett studies today. This Companion considers Beckett's lasting significance by addressing a host of relevant topics. Written by a team of renowned scholars, this volume presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism, intertextuality, late modernism, history, philosophy, ethics, body and mind. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments in Beckett studies while prompting further exploration, assisted by the guide to further reading.

1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' John Pilling
2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped Angela Moorjani
3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' Peter Boxall
4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett's cultural impact Rónán McDonald
5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings Emilie Morin
6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet Mark Nixon
7. Beckett and late modernism Shane Weller
8. Beckett's intertexts Anthony Uhlmann
9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn Sam Slote
10. Samuel Beckett and the 'idea' of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze S. E. Gontarski
11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy Peter Fifield
12. Love and lobsters: Beckett's meta-ethics Jean-Michael Rabaté
13. Beckett, body and mind Ulrika Maude
14. 'Humanity in ruins': Beckett and history Seán Kennedy.

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]