Samuel Beckett: A Casebook

by Jennifer M. Jeffers (Editor), Kimball king (Editor)

Overview

Samuel Beckett: A Casebook may be characterized as a new collection of essays by a generation of Beckett scholars who did not have access to the author. This text demarcates the line between the critical work produced when Beckett was alive, and the critical work produced within ten years of the author's death. This collection is distinctive, too, because the text offers a variety of critical perspectives which engage and problematize Beckett's dramatic canon. From Deleuzean rhizomatics to New Historicism to the crucial question of gender-each reading re-positions Beckett's plays and forces us to rethink our standard interpretations of Beckett's drama.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138870529
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/27/2015
Series:	Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jennifer M. Jeffers

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jennifer M. Jeffers; Chapter 2 Whispers Out of Time, Helen Regueiro Elam; Chapter 3 “Speak no more”, Jonathan Boulter; Chapter 4 “A place without an occupant”, Jennifer M. Jeffers; Chapter 5 Voices out of the Air, Stephen Dilks; Chapter 6 Vain Reasonings, Derval Tubridy; Chapter 7 Performing Vision(s), Anna McMullan; Chapter 8 “Sadism Demands a Story”, Karen Laughlin; Chapter 9 Bodily Functions, Christine Jones; Chapter 10 Empire of Light, William E. Gruber; Chapter 11 Exhausted Cameras—Beckett in the TV-Zoo, Eckart Voigts-Virchow;

Editorial Reviews

Associated with minimalism and the theater of the absurd, Beckett pared down stage language to its most fundamental essentials. Eleven essays by a generation of post-Beckett scholars who did not personally know the writer provide alternate readings from that of the previous generation. The contributions give a variety of theoretical perspectives: from rhizomatics to New Historicism to gender. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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