Edinburgh University Press
Beckett Matters
About this book
Collects Stan Gontarski’s finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year period
Representing a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski’s Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels. Such a range suggests a multiplicity of approaches to a body of work itself multiple, produced by an artist who underwent any number of transformations and reinventions over his long writing career. Many of the essays collected here explore Beckett’s debt to his age, Beckett very much a product of a culture in transition, which change he would help foster. But much of Beckett’s creative struggle was to find a new way, his own way. Most of the essays that comprise this volume detail that struggle, toward a way we now call Beckettian.
Key Features
Includes 24 original essays divided into thematic sections: modernism, theory, editing, introducing, and performing and covers Beckett’s drama, staging, fiction, poetry and proseUnique collection of Beckett scholarship by a leading Beckett critic and theatre director brought together for the first timeNew introductory essay reflecting on the development of Beckett scholarship
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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The Remains of the Modern and the Exhaustion of Thematics: An Introduction
1 - Theory Matters
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1 Beckett’s Voice(s)
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2 From Unabandoned Works: Beckett’s Short Prose
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3 The Conjuring of Something Out of Nothing: Beckett’s ‘Closed Space’ Novels
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4 Beckett’s ‘Imbedded’ Poetry and the Critique of Genre
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5 Art and Commodity: Beckett’s Commerce with Grove Press
82 - Texts Matter
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6 Editing Beckett
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7 A Century of Missed Opportunities: Editing an Accurate Edition of Beckett’s ‘Shorts’ and Other Textual Misadventures
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8 Still at Issue After All These Years: The Beckettian Text, Printed and Performed
140 - Performance Matters
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9 ‘That’s the Show’: Beckett and Performance
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10 Reinventing Beckett
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11 Staging Beckett: Voice and/in Performance (Company, What Where and Endgame)
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12 Beckett and the ‘Idea’ of Theatre: Performance Through Artaud and Deleuze
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13 Greying the Canon: Beckett in Performance, Beckett as Performance
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14 ‘I think this does call for a firm stand’: Beckett at the Royal Court
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