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Samuel Beckett: A Casebook  
Author: Jennifer M. Jeffers (Editor)
ISBN: 0815325517
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
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.




Samuel Beckett: A Casebook

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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.

FROM THE CRITICS

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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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