Linda Ben-Zvi, Angela Moorjani

Beckett at 100

Revolving It All

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Produktbeschreibung

Contains 23 essays by leading international Beckett scholars

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 169mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780195325485
• ISBN-10: 0195325486
• Artikelnr.: 22942587

Autorenporträt

Linda Ben-Zvi is Professor of Theatre Studies, Tel Aviv University and Professor emerita, English and Theatre, Colorado State University. Among her twelve books are Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times (Oxford UP, 2005). She is a recipient of the George Freedley Special Jury Prize, Theatre Library Association, and was a John Stern Distinguished Professor at Ciolorado, Fellow at the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lady Davis Professor at Hebrew University, and twice elected President of the International Samuel Beckett Society. Angela Moorjani is emerita professor of modern languages and linguistics (French) at the University of Maryland-UMBC. Her many studies of Samuel Beckett and the aesthetic and ethical effects of melancholy in literature and the arts include the postructural Abysmal Games in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (1982), The Aesthetics of Loss and Lessness (1992) and Beyond Fetishism (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

* Images: For Ruby Cohn
* Still for Ruby
* Beckett the Tourist: Bamberg and W:urzburg
* Part I. Thinking through Beckett
* Apnea and True Illusion: Breath(less) in Beckett
* From Contumacy to Shame: Reading Beckett's Testimonies with Agamben
* Projections: Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Not I as Autobiographies
* "I am Not a Philosopher"
* Recovering Beckett's Bergsonism
* No Body Is at Rest: The Legacy of Leibniz's Force in Beckett's Oeuvre
* Part II. Shifting Perspectives
* Bounded Boundlessness: Reflecting on Counterpoint and Iconography in
Beckett's Play
* Beckett's Romanticism
* Film and Film: Beckett and Early Film Theory
* Beckett's Theatre: Embodying Alterity
* Beckett's Posture in the French Literary Field
* The Spear of Telephus in Krapp's Last Tape
* Refiguring the Stage Body through the Mechanical Re-Production of
Memory
* Part III. Echoing Beckett
* Words and Music,...but the clouds..., and Yeats's "The Tower"
* Beckett--Feldman--Johns
* Ontological Fear and Anxiety in the Theatre of Beckett, Betsuyaku,
and Pinter
* The Mid-Century Godot: Beckett and Saroyan
* Beckett, McLuhan, and Television: The Medium, the Message, and "the
Mess"
* Beckett and Caryl Churchill along the Moebius Strip
* Beckett and Paul Auster: Fathers and Sons and the Creativity of
Misreading
* Staging Sam: Beckett as Dramatic Character
* Contributors
* Index