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Free Download David McKinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study "
English | ISBN: 1032468904 | 2024 | 202 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009-2015. Through cross-comparisons between the aesthetics and form of Beckett’s Trilogy, Mercier and Camier, Footfalls and Not I, and those of a range of post-crash Irish novels including Beatlebone, Hawthorn and Child, Room, and A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, this book establishes Beckett’s continuing influence on Irish fiction. With particular reference to these newer authors’ treatment of scarcity, trauma, indeterminism, gender and sexuality, and confinement in the context of major societal changes and traumas in Irish society since 2009, topics include the imposition of austerity, collapse of faith in institutions, and the increasing recognition of LGBTQIA+ and reproductive rights.

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by David McKinney
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032468904 | 210 Pages | True PDF | 3.64 MB

Free Download Hannah Simpson, "Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance "
English | ISBN: 3031041321 | 2022 | 251 pag
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Free Download Beckett’s Dantes : Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism By Caselli, Daniela; Beckett, Samuel; Dante Alighieri
2006 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 0719071569 | PDF | 2 MB
This is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante’s works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. Caselli gives an original intertextual reading of Beckett’s work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett’s fiction and criticism.

Free Download Amanda M. Dennis, "Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space, Agency "
English | ISBN: 1474462995 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett’s work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett’s oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.

Free Download Daniela Caselli, "Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0719071577 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.6 mb
Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante’s works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett’s work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett’s fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett’s published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). Through a close reading of Beckett’s fiction and criticism, the book will argue that Dante is both assumed as an external source of literary and cultural authority in Beckett’s work, and also participates in Beckett’s texts’ sceptical undermining of authority. Moreover, the book demonstrates that the many references to various ‘Dantes’ produce ‘Mr Beckett’ as the figure of the author responsible for such a remarkably interconnected oeuvre. The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon.

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English | 182 pages | PDF | 330.8 MB

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English | 174 pages | PDF | 294.1 MB

Free Download Marco Bernini, "Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives "
English | ISBN: 0190664355 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett’s narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as an introspective modeling technology. Through a detailed analysis of Beckett’s entire corpus and published volumes of letters, this book argues that Beckett pioneered a new method of writing to construct (in a mode analogous to scientific inquiry) models for the exploration of core laws, processes, and dynamics in the human mind.

Free Download Beckett Football – February 2024
English | 172 pages | PDF | 281.9 MB