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Journal articles on the topic "Beckett, Samuel, 1906- Criticism and interpretation"

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"Essay Review : Beckett at 90 JOHN FLETCHER* University of East Anglia The World of Samuel Beckett 1906-1946. By Lois Gordon. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. ix + 250. £19.95. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. By Anthony Cronin. London: HarperCollins, 1996. Pp. vi + 600. £20.00. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. By James Knowlson. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Pp. xxiv + 872. £25.00. The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Vol. I: Waiting for Godot. Edited by Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson. London: Faber & Faber, 1993. Pp. xxxiii + 472. £75.00. Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde. By Charles Juliet. Translated by Janey Tucker, with an introduction and notes by Adriaan van der Weel and Ruud Hisgen. Leiden: Academic Press, 1995. Pp. vi + 173 pp. Dfl 29.95. The Counterpoint of Hope, Obsession and Desire for Death in Five Plays by Samuel Beckett. By Hwa Soon Kim. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xviii + 140. $39.95. The Cambridge Companion to Beckett. Edited by John Pilling. Cambridge: University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 249. £35.00 h/b, £11.95 p/b. Critique of Beckett Criticism: A Guide to Research in English, French and German. By P. J. Murphy, Werner Huber, Rolf Breuer and Konrad Schoell. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994. Pp. xii + 173. £39.00." Journal of European Studies 26, no. 3 (September 1996): 327–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004724419602600304.

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Dewsbury, John-David. "Still: 'No Man's Land' or Never Suspend the Question." M/C Journal 12, no. 1 (March 4, 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.134.

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“Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back into. No out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still” (Beckett, Short Fiction 471). 1. Introduction – Wherefore to ‘still’?HIRST: As it is?SPOONER: As it is, yes please, absolutely as it is (Pinter, 1971-1981 77). These first lines of Harold Pinter’s play No Man’s Land are indeed the first lines: they were the first lines that came to Pinter, existing as the spark that drove the play into being. Pinter overhead the words ‘As it is’ whilst in a taxi cab and was struck

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Shiloh, Ilana. "Adaptation, Intertextuality, and the Endless Deferral of Meaning." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (May 1, 2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2636.

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   Film adaptation is an ambiguous term, both semantically and conceptually. Among its multiple connotations, the word “adaptation” may signify an artistic composition that has been recast in a new form, an alteration in the structure or function of an organism to make it better fitted for survival, or a modification in individual or social activity in adjustment to social surroundings. What all these definitions have in common is a tacitly implied hierarchy and valorisation: they presume the existence of an origin to which the recast work of art is indebted, or of biological

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Maloney, Cahill B. Claire. "Samuel Beckett and the Irish grotesque tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22606.

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By fusing many of the established hypotheses on the source of the grotesque in Irish literature, this study establishes that these writers' impatience with all boundaries and limitations, physical or mental, led them to exploit the indeterminacy of the grotesque to achieve their particular aesthetic and epistemological objectives.<br>After an initial chapter on the relevant theoretical and national considerations, the prodigious cloacal visions of Beckett and Joyce are compared, with emphasis on their use of the grotesque to demythologize the creative process. A fourth chapter compares O'Brien

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Fraser, Graham 1966. "The self-conscious narrator in Beckett's trilogy /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59888.

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This thesis examines Beckett's trilogy as a work of metafiction, approaching each novel through its primary metafictional device, the self-conscious narrator. Since the narrators are aware of their roles as story-tellers, the examination is carried out in light of Beckett's pronouncements on the nature of art and the artist. Not only are the narrators found to meet Beckett's criteria for artists and artistic development, but Beckett's aesthetic is seen virtually to require self-consciousness. In their situations, their relationship to the audience (both reader and narratee) and the nature of t

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Hellman, Thomas. "Beckett, Babel et bilinguisme, suivi de, Espaces." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79945.

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Critical essay. Soon after the end of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett began producing French and English versions of each of his works. This raises interesting questions concerning the relationship between two languages and two texts within one literary work. Bilingualism is an essential dimension of Beckett's "oeuvre" which pushes the very limits of literature and explores essential aspects of language, identity and creation.<br>Creative writing. I was born in Montreal of a French mother and a father from Texas. My work in creative writing consists of six short stories set between

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Tucker, Amanda. "Godot in Earnest: Beckettian Readings of Wilde." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4248/.

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Critics and audiences alike have neglected the idea of Wilde as a precursor to Beckett. But I contend that a closer look at each writer's aesthetic and philosophic tendencies-for instance, their interest in the fluid nature of self, their understanding of identity as a performance, and their belief in language as both a way in and a way out of stagnancy -will connect them in surprising and highly significant ways. This thesis will focus on the ways in which Wilde prefigures Beckett as a dramatist. Indeed, many of the themes that Beckett, free from the constraints of a censor and from the socie

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Wulf, Catharina. "Desire in Beckett : a Lacanian approach to Samuel Beckett's plays Krapp's last tape, Not I, That time, Footfalls and Rockaby." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59554.

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This thesis argues that desire is a major theme in Samuel Beckett's dramatic works. Central to our analysis is Jacques Lacan's concept of the Desire for the Other, as the outcome of the human subject's division. We will investigate how desire is expressed at the level of Beckett's characters' utterance. The characters' attempts at and inability to achieve a reconciliation with their speech correlate with the impossibility of reunifying Lacan's split subject. The first part of our discussion focuses upon desire-as-paradox--the lack of will to desire and the continuation of desire--in Not I, Foo

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Brown, Peter Robert 1963. "Narrative, knowledge and personhood : stories of the self and Samuel Beckett's first-person prose." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35856.

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This dissertation offers both a theoretical investigation into the relationships between narrative, knowledge and personhood and a literary critical analysis of a group of Samuel Beckett's works in which narrative, knowledge and personhood are the central themes.<br>I present an account of the notion of narrative and explore the nature of justified narrative assertions. I then turn to skeptical and anti-realist arguments about the ability of narratives to represent truthfully the world. Such arguments are widespread in postmodernist and poststructuralist circles, and in order to evaluate them,

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Bernier, Frédérique 1973 Apr 11. "La voix et l'os : poétiques du dépouillement chez Saint-Denys Garneau et Samuel Beckett." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115636.

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This thesis is concerned with the poetics of impoverishment as found in the works of Saint-Denys Garneau and Samuel Beckett. It seeks to shed light on the reactivation of a Christian ascetic heritage within modern writing forms (poetic and narrative) and also, more specifically, to develop a novel analysis of these works from the perspective of their points of overlap. This thesis presents analysis of the relationships between voice and body (part I), of the doppelganger and self-generation figures (part II), of prayer, desert and image motifs (part III) throughout the totality of both corpuse

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Springer, Michael Leicester. ""Form fading among fading forms" death, language and madness in the novels of Samuel Beckett." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002240.

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The primary thesis of this dissertation is that the development of narrative strategy and technique through the course of Samuel Beckett’s fictional oeuvre enacts a parody of the Cartesian method of doubt, in which the search for first principles, instead of providing grounds for certainty, is a hopeless, grotesque quest for a self which eludes any and every assertion. My chief concerns are thus, firstly, to explicate and elucidate the nature of such narrative strategies and techniques, and how these can be said to parody epistemological procedure; and secondly, to interrogate the implications

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Melo, Gedivânio Feitosa Mateus. "Caligrafia apagada = silêncio na escrita de Esperando Godot." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284351.

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Orientador: Mario Alberto de Santana<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T23:51:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melo_GedivanioFeitosaMateus_M.pdf: 950720 bytes, checksum: a03d9be3609069f0698b30f07a486418 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011<br>Resumo: Considerando o Silêncio como um elemento inerente aos processos de criação do teatro moderno, esta pesquisa dedica-se à investigação do Silêncio na obra "Esperando Godot", de Samuel Beckett, construindo cuidadosa reflexão sobre a sua presença em categorias específ

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Gagas, Jonathan. "Late Modernist Schizophrenia: From Phenomenology to Cultural Pathology." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/263194.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>My dissertation demonstrates how representations of schizophrenic characters in novels can combat widespread misuses of psychiatric terms and help readers empathize with mentally ill people if we read these novels with some understanding of psychiatry and the psychoanalysis that influenced them. I undertake a critical genealogy of the schizophrenia concept's migration from the mental health professions to fiction, concentrating on the period from the German invasion of Paris in June 1940 to the events of May 1968, with some attention to contemporary uses of the schizophreni

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Books on the topic "Beckett, Samuel, 1906- Criticism and interpretation"

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Samuel Beckett. London: Faber and Faber, 2000.

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Kennedy, Andrew K. Samuel Beckett. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Council, British, ed. Samuel Beckett. Tavistock, U.K: Northcote House/British Council, 2006.

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Roy, Clements. The alternative wisden on Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989). [London?]: Daripress, 1992.

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Philosophical aesthetics and Samuel Beckett. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008.

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Bixby, Patrick. Samuel Beckett and the postcolonial novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Bixby, Patrick. Samuel Beckett and the postcolonial novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Samuel Beckett and the postcolonial novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Beckett and decay. London: Continuum, 2009.

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Samuel Beckett: Laughing matters, comic timing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

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