David Beckett's Books

Beckett's Words

The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

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Beckett's Words

The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

By: David Kleinberg-Levin

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.

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329

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN 10

1474216862

ISBN 13

9781474216869

Beckett's Thing

Painting and Theatre

By: David Lloyd

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Beckett's Thing

Painting and Theatre

By: David Lloyd

Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.

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272

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Edinburgh University Press

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ISBN 10

1474415733

ISBN 13

9781474415736

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

By: David Bradby

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Beckett: Waiting for Godot

By: David Bradby

Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all aspects of their staging. In this book David Bradby explores the impact of the play and its influence on acting, directing, design, and the role of theatre in society. Bradby begins with an analysis of the play and its historical context. After discussing the first productions in France, Britain and America, he examines subsequent productions in Africa, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, China and Japan. The book assesses interpretations by actors such as Bert Lahr, David Warrilow, Georges Wilson, Barry McGovern and Ben Kingsley, and directors Roger Blin, Susan Sontag, Sir Peter Hall, Luc Bondy, Yukio Ninagawa and Beckett himself. It also contains an extensive production chronology, bibliography and illustrations from major productions.

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276

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Cambridge University Press

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ISBN 10

0521594294

ISBN 13

9780521594295

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

By: David Damrosch,Kevin J. H. Dettmar

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The Longman Anthology of British Literature

By: David Damrosch,Kevin J. H. Dettmar

The goal of this anthology is to present a wealth of poetry, prose, and drama from the full sweep of the literary history of the British Isles and its empire, and to do so in ways that will bring out both the works' original cultural contexts and their lasting aesthetic power.-Pref.

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1100

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321333969

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9780321333964

At the Edge of Ireland

Seasons on the Beara Peninsula

By: David Yeadon

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At the Edge of Ireland

Seasons on the Beara Peninsula

By: David Yeadon

In recent years, Ireland has enjoyed a newfound prosperity as Europe's most affluent nation. But tucked away in a far corner of the so-called "Celtic Tiger," that other enduring and authentic country—that small, hidden place of simple magic and romance—still exists. Acclaimed travel writer David Yeadon and his wife, Anne, set out to find it. On the Beara Peninsula of southwest Ireland, the Yeadons discovered their own "little lost world," an enticing Brigadoon of soaring mountain ranges and spectacular coastal scenery, far removed from the touristic hullabaloo of Dublin, Killarney, and the Ring of Kerry. Here is the fabled "Old Ireland," alive and well with music seisuins, hooley dances, and seanachai storytellers—a haven for searchers, healers, artists, and poets hardy enough to have braved the same narrow and winding mountain roads that keep the package-tour coaches out. Bursting with color and life, At the Edge of Ireland is an intrepid wanderer's celebration of a magical, unspoiled, and unforgettable Éire.

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432

Publisher

Harper Collins

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ISBN 10

0061971316

ISBN 13

9780061971310

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

By: David Pattie

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The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

By: David Pattie

This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.

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238

Publisher

Psychology Press

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ISBN 10

0415202531

ISBN 13

9780415202534

Reunion ; Dark Pony

Two Plays

By: David Mamet

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Reunion ; Dark Pony

Two Plays

By: David Mamet

In these two moving early plays, Mamet displays the humor, sensitivity, and ear for language that have made him one of the most celebrated playwrights in American theater today.

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Random House (NY)

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ISBN 10

0394174593

ISBN 13

9780394174594

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Beckett's Words

Beckett's Words

Beckett's Thing

Beckett's Thing

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

At the Edge of Ireland

At the Edge of Ireland

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

Reunion ; Dark Pony

Reunion ; Dark Pony

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