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  • Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio

    A Reassessment

    Edited by Erik Tonning, David Addyman, Matthew Feldman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Beckett/Philosophy

    by Matthew Feldman, Erik Tonning, David Addyman, Peter Fifield, Chris Ackerley, Steven Matthews, David Tucker, P.J. Murphy, Dirk van Hulle, Emilie Morin0, Lotta Einarsson1, Kathryn White2, Mireille Bousquet3, Karim Mamdani4, Donald Phillip Verene6 ...
    This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies

    New Critical Essays

    by Professor Chris Ackerley, Prof Graley Herren, Dr Peter Fifield, Dr Ulrika Maude, Dr Matthew Feldman, David Wheatley, Dr Mark Nixon, Professor Andrew Gibson, Dr Iain Bailey, Dr David Addyman0, Yoshiki Tajiri2 ...
    Series series Plays and Playwrights
    Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

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  • Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett

    A Celebration

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    In life, Beckett was notoriously reticent, preferring to let his work speak for itself. In the first half of this collection, he reveals many of his inner thoughts and honest opinions about his life, writing, friends, and colleagues in candid interviews published for the first time in this book. He discusses his friendship with James Joyce and his role in the Resistance during the Nazi occupation ... Read more

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  • Theatre and AutoBiography

    Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Sherrill Grace, Jerry Wasserman ...
    That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical processes, ... Read more

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  • Samuel Beckett

    by Andrew Gibson ...
    Series Book 25 - Critical Lives
    The life of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) has been the subject of exhaustive scholarship, yet by contrast Beckett himself was a spare, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted the techniques of biography. In this new, concise, critical account of Beckett’s life and work, Andrew Gibson seeks to remain faithful to the writer’s artistic aims, staying close to Beckett’s style of thought and work in his ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Radio Drama

    by Tim Crook ...
    Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

    Edited by Stan Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden ... Read more

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  • Modernism

    by Peter Childs ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:details the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • 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

    $33.99 USD

  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Alan Clarke

    by Dave Rolinson ...
    Series series The Television Series
    The British television director Alan Clarke is primarily associated with the visceral social realism of such works as his banned borstal play Scum, and his study of football hooliganism, The Firm. This book uncovers the full range of his work from the mythic fantasy of Penda’s Fen, to the radical short film on terrorism, Elephant.Dave Rolinson uses original research to examine the development of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD