The New Samuel Beckett Studies

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Jean-Michel Rabaté (Edited by)

9781108471855, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 July 2019

280 pages, 4 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.55 kg

This collection explains developments within Beckett studies and why he has emerged as one of the most iconic writers of the twentieth century. It also proposes a new interpretive framework that explores both the expanded canon, which has doubled the volume of his works in the last ten years, and the new methods used to approach it. This book covers all the most recent approaches to the Beckett study, such as archival research, queer theory, mathematical readings of literature, neuro-scientific approaches, translation studies, and disability studies. These new approaches are shown to be relevant and necessary to provide a renewed understanding of the lasting value of Beckett's works.

Editor's introduction Jean-Michel Rabaté
Part I. The Expanded Canon: 1. Digitizing Beckett Dirk van Hulle
2. 'All the variants' Mark Nixon
3. Beckett's letters: the edition and the corpus Daniel Gunn
4. The evolution of Beckett's poetry Marjorie Perloff
Part II. New Contexts and Intertexts: 5. Beckett's critique of literature John Bolin
6. Beckett, political memory, and the sense of history Emilie Morin
7. Samuel Beckett as contemporary artist Judith Wilkinson
8. Beckett, radio and the voice Llewellyn Brown
Part III. New Hermeneutic Codes: 9. Beckett's queer art of failure Calvin Thomas
10. Beckett, nerve theory and literary form Ulrika Maude
11. Beckett's disabled language Laura Salisbury
12. Beckett and mathematics Baylee Brits
13. Beckett's bilingual explorations Nadia Louar
14. Waiting for Godot among the prisoners Lance Duerfahrd.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literature: history & criticism [DS]