The Beckett Critical Reader - by S E Gontarski (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present.

Book Synopsis

Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volume
The Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. It is divided into two sections, 'Foul Papers: Archives and Sources' and 'Fair Papers: Theories and Translations', together with the editor's Introduction. It contains work by some of the world's leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Weller and Mary Bryden) and reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the 'new pragmatism' within Beckett Studies.
Key Features
* Gathers 5 strongly textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett's texts
* Includes 2 theoretically informed essays by major French philosophers, Bruno Clément and Alain Badiou
* Includes studies of Beckett's Italian translations
* Brings together in one place archival and source material, high quality original research and theoretically informed analysis

From the Back Cover

Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volume This Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. It is divided into two sections, 'Foul Papers: Archives and Sources' and 'Fair Papers: Theories and Translations', together with the editor's Introduction. It contains work by some of the world's leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Weller and Mary Bryden) and reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the 'new pragmatism' within Beckett Studies. Key Features - Gathers 5 strongly textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett's texts - Includes 2 theoretically informed essays by major French philosophers, Bruno Clément and Alain Badiou - Includes studies of Beckett's Italian translations - Brings together in one place archival and source material, high quality original research and theoretically informed analysis S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University and a leading scholar of the work of Samuel Beckett. He is a Patron of the Samuel Beckett Foundation and on the Advisory Board of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project at the Center for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. He has edited most recently On Beckett: Essays and Criticism, A Companion to Samuel Beckett and Krapp's Last Tape and other Short Plays. He was the Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1989-2008. Jacket image: Mia Storia con Beckett (c) Margherita Lazzati. Courtesy Flaere Gallery www.flaere.com. Jacket design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-6570-9 [please add within the barcode box, at the top] Barcode

About the Author

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University. He is the author and editor of many publications the most recent of which are: Burroughs Unbound: William Burroughs and the Performance of Writing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater (Anthem Impact Books, 2021). He is also the author of Beckett Matters: Essays on Beckett's Late Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and the editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)