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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “anna mcmullan”
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  • Reflections on Beckett

    A Centenary Celebration

    Edited by Anna McMullan, S. E. Wilmer ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The essays in this collection were originally delivered as part of the esteemed lecture series at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett's alma mater. The eminent contributors shed new light on Beckett's enigmatic theater, taking up an engaging array of topics. Included are new perspectives on Beckett's use of language and silence, on his attitudes toward the body, on those who influenced him and ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Beckett's afterlives

    Adaptation, remediation, appropriation

    Edited by Jonathan Bignell, Pim Verhulst, Anna McMullan ...
    Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. The collection employs interrelated concepts of adaptation, remediation and appropriation to reflect on Beckett’s own evolving approach to crossing genre boundaries and to analyse the ways ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Beckett's Intermedial Ecosystems

    Closed Space Environments across the Stage, Prose and Media Works

    by Anna McMullan ...
    Series series Elements in Beckett Studies
    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. Readers, listeners or viewers are complicit in the operation of techniques of observation ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

    by Anna McMullan ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Theatre on Trial

    Samuel Beckett's Later Drama

    by Anna McMullan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Beckett
    This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance. Recent work in the world of critical theory has suggested new ways of looking at ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art

    by Paul Stewart ...
    This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art—he is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. The volume ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

    Edited by John Pilling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    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 ... Read more

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  • Samuel Beckett

    by David Pattie ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Samuel Beckett's work forever changed the concepts of literature and theatre. His work remains a core part of introductory courses on literary history, drama, theatre or performance and also features in more specialist modules such as Modernism or The Absurd. Samuel Beckett is a comprehensive introduction to his life and work as well as an outline of the critical issues surrounding his work. This ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader

    Edited by John Keefe, Simon Murray ...
    Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with a strong historical and theoretical underpinning.In exploring the histories, cross-overs and intersections of physical theatres, this critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Contemporary Trauma Narratives

    Liminality and the Ethics of Form

    Edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry, John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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