Download or read book The Transformations of Godot written by Frederick Busi and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky—the bizarre names stand out strangely against the bare-bones landscape of Waiting for Godot. In an intriguing new study of one of the most haunting plays of this century, Frederick Busi shows that these names serve important dramatic functions, reinforcing the changing roles assumed by the mysterious characters in their tortuous search for—and avoidance of—self. Busi also explores Beckett's convoluted literary relationship with James Joyce, especially as revealed in the plays-within-the-play and verbal jigh jinks of Finnegan's Wake, where, as in Godot, the same characters keep dreamily encountering themselves in different disguises, under shifting names. Beckett's strong affinities with Cervantes and the common debt of these two authors to the traditions of commedia dell'arte lead Busi to important insights into the shifting master-slave relationship so prominent in Godot, as in Don Quixote. The religious implications of Godot—the subject of so much critical debate—are placed in a new perspective by Busi's provocative observation that certain early Christian heretical works and certain books of the Apocrypha contain not only the idea of the Devil/God, Judas/Jesus identifications implied in Godot but also a number of names that Beckett seems to have had in mind when he wrote his play. Rich in linguistic, historical, and psychological learning, Busi's examination of the names in Godot leads the reader to a fuller awareness of Beckett's extraordinarily complex imagination. As Wylie Sypher writes in the foreword, the book is "an invitation to expand our reading of Beckett in many directions."

Download or read book Critical Essays on Samuel Beckett written by Patrick A. McCarthy and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beckett and French Theory written by Eric Migernier and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's works have spawned a great variety of critical - sometimes contradictory - interpretations, most recently ones stemming from postmodern theories of literature. In keeping with this trend, this book probes the relationship between Beckett's fiction and the work of a number of contemporary French thinkers, such as Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze, which demonstrates how concepts such as «the thought of the outside» and «the simulacrum» also generate Beckett's transgressive narrative. Beckett and French Theory provides valuable new knowledge and understanding to teachers and students of both Beckett's fiction and recent French critical theory.

Download or read book Comparative Criticism Volume 13 Literature and Science written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics covered in this volume include literary Chinese as a language for science, the history and principles of scientific translation in Europe, the theatrical panorama in the 19th century and its roots in optical theory and experiment, and an alternative perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Download or read book Abysmal Games in the Novels of Samuel Beckett written by Angela B. Moorjani and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

Download or read book Semiotics of Visual Language written by Fernande Saint-Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the details of Saint-Martin's argument contain a wealth of penetrating observations from which anyone with a serious interest in visual communication will profit." -- Journal of Communication Saint-Martin elucidates a syntax of visual language that sheds new light on nonverbal language as a form of representation and communication. She describes the evolution of this language in the visual arts as well as its multiple uses in contemporary media. The result is a completely new approach for scholars and practitioners of the visual arts eager to decode the many forms of visual communication.

Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Cathleen Culotta Andonian and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reading Narrative Discourse written by Andrew Gibson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-02-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of Beckett Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beckett and the Voice of Species written by Eric P. Levy and published by Dublin : Gill and Macmillan ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Download or read book Trapped in Thought written by Eric P. Levy and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric P. Levy’s book investigates the mentality or attitude of cognitive apprehension expressed in Beckettian texts. Primary areas of concern include how the Beckettian attitude began, what concepts it invents or transforms to sustain its mode of thought, how the mentality wards off factors which would refute or heal it, and, most paradoxical of all, why this mentality ultimately reduces the mind to an estranged source of thought, continuously repudiated by its own awareness. The study uncovers the strategies by which experience is evacuated of all content but that consistent with the attitude registering it.

Download or read book Samuel Beckett 1970 1989 written by Marius Buning and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Beckett s Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable written by Harold Bloom and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten critical essays on three French novels by Beckett, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Download or read book Remembering and the Sound of Words written by Adam Piette and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Adam Piette establishes fascinating new links between sound effects and the representation of memory in literary texts. He sets out a workable taxonomy of sound-repetitions in prose and formulates, through a theory of alerting-devices, the ways in which the reader's attention is drawn to the acoustic surface of the text. Piette scrutinizes Mallarm 's prose-poetry, Proust's musical syntax, Joyce's memory-rhymes (from the Portrait of the Artist through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake), and Beckett's prose and drama, demonstrating that sound effects act as intricate reminders of memory-traces in the text. Despite how widely the four writers diverge in their representations of memory, Piette shows that the use of this memory-rhyme technique is common to them all.

Download or read book Transgression Language and Subjectivity in Beckett written by Eric Charles Migernier and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beckett s Game written by Jean Yamasaki Toyama and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than use theory to understand fiction, Beckett's Game uses fiction to understand criticism. Engaging and relaxed, it is an important contribution to Beckett studies, to the understanding of the postmodern novel and to theoretical research into the question of the self in language and literature. Professor Toyama presents a careful analysis of the trilogy in the light of recent critical theory, especially Derrida and Deleuze, in what may be called a «poststructuralist» analysis of the novels. Through her analysis she sheds light on the issues and the problems now at the center of critical controversy.

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