Tag: Beckett

Free Download Beckett Baseball – February 2024
English | 244 pages | PDF | 416.1 MB

Free Download Balazs Rapcsak, "Beckett and media"
English | ISBN: 1526145839 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Beckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Beckett and media draws on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such, the book engages with Beckett as a media artist and examines the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation.

Free Download Gabriele Schwab, "Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times"
English | ISBN: 0231211619 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Samuel Beckett’s work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett’s characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that seem at once to confront finitude and the infinite, up to the limits of existence.

Free Download Rodney Sharkey, "Bowie, Beckett, and Being: The Art of Alienation"
English | ISBN: 1501391240 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of their artistic practices, the study also illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms of human experience otherwise silenced by normative modes of representation. To liberate these experiences, Bowie and Beckett create alternative theatrical, musical, and philosophical spaces, which help frame the power relations of the psychological, verbal, and material places we inhabit. The result is that their work demonstrates how individuals are disciplined by the implicitly repressive social order of late capitalism, while, simultaneously, offering an informed political alternative. In making the injunctions of the social order apparent, Beckett and Bowie also transgress its terms, opening up new spaces beyond the conventional identities of family, nation, and gender, until both artists finally coalesce in the quantum space of the posthuman.

Free Download Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, "Samuel Beckett’s ‘More Pricks Than Kicks’: In A Strait Of Two Wills"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1441159479, 1472525728 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Drawing on private correspondence and little known documents, published and unpublished, Pilling explores every aspect of the More Pricks Than Kicks short story collection. From its publishing history to why they were written, Pilling reveals Beckett’s conflicted feelings about the ‘compromise’ of writing short stories and his struggle to find a voice distinct from James Joyce, his friend and authority of the form.