Beckett and Politics
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Beschreibung
This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens: it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett’s life, his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett’s work is not only ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader relationships between literature, culture and politics.
This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens: it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett’s life, his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett’s work is not only ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader relationships between literature, culture and politics.
Fosters constructive dialogues within and around a complex nexus of critical, disciplinary and political approaches to Beckett Reveals the full extent of the influence of politics not only on the writer himself, but also on the critical study and performance of his works, and on literature more widely Incorporates a variety of scholarly approaches and methodologies to Beckett, including archival, historical, textual, theoretical, narratological, formal and theatre / performance perspectives
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William Davies
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“This excellent, wide-ranging book showcases the ongoing health and diversity of scholarship in Beckett studies. The volume cuts across archival, theoretical and biographical divides, gathering together original chapters that demonstrate the complexity and significance of the historical and contemporary relationships between Beckett, his work and politics.” (Laura Salisbury, Professor in Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter, UK)
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