Description
The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualise and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterised, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett's early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyse his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. The book thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century's leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett's writing as well as "historicist" scholars and critics of modernism more generally.
About the Author
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes includeClerical Fascism in Interwar Europe(Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century(Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collectionFascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes includeDoublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945(with Paul Jackson, 2014),The New Man in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 19191945(with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph,Ezra Pounds Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945,appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays,Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press.
Reviews
"Matthew Feldman has been one of the leading Beckett scholars of the past generation. These essays cumulatively testify to the standards he has set for empirical and archival research in this field. That we now speak of the 'grey canon' - the archive of notebooks and unpublished papers that have transformed our understanding of Beckett's debts and influences - is in no small part due to Feldman's ground-breaking interventions." -- Ronan McDonald, Director of the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"The common thread running through this richly furnished volume is the sheer diversity of ideas, echoes, and influences playing into the creative imagination of one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers. Matthew Feldmans nuanced analyses emerge from many years of sustained engagement with Becketts notebooks and drafts, and with the intellectual environment which surrounded their production. These insightful essays offer the reader an illuminating journey through Becketts writing and its cultural milieu. They will be indispensable for any serious scholar of Beckett." -- Mary Bryden, Professor of French Studies, University of Reading
Book Information
ISBN 9783838206363
Author Matthew Feldman
Format Paperback
Page Count 302
Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Publisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Weight(grams) 412g
About the Author
Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three book-length studies, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters. Published volumes includeClerical Fascism in Interwar Europe(Routledge, 2008), A Fascist Century(Palgrave, 2008), and, with Roger Griffin, the five-volume collectionFascism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 2003). More recent volumes includeDoublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945(with Paul Jackson, 2014),The New Man in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 19191945(with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker, 2017), as well as the journal specials Far-right Populism and Lone Wolf Terrorism in Contemporary Europe (Democracy and Security, 2013) and The Ideologies and Ideologues of the Radical Right (Patterns of Prejudice, 2016). His most recent monograph,Ezra Pounds Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945,appeared with Palgrave in 2013, and his first collection of essays,Falsifying Beckett, appeared in 2015 with ibidem Press.
Reviews
"Matthew Feldman has been one of the leading Beckett scholars of the past generation. These essays cumulatively testify to the standards he has set for empirical and archival research in this field. That we now speak of the 'grey canon' - the archive of notebooks and unpublished papers that have transformed our understanding of Beckett's debts and influences - is in no small part due to Feldman's ground-breaking interventions." -- Ronan McDonald, Director of the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"The common thread running through this richly furnished volume is the sheer diversity of ideas, echoes, and influences playing into the creative imagination of one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers. Matthew Feldmans nuanced analyses emerge from many years of sustained engagement with Becketts notebooks and drafts, and with the intellectual environment which surrounded their production. These insightful essays offer the reader an illuminating journey through Becketts writing and its cultural milieu. They will be indispensable for any serious scholar of Beckett." -- Mary Bryden, Professor of French Studies, University of Reading
Book Information
ISBN 9783838206363
Author Matthew Feldman
Format Paperback
Page Count 302
Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Publisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Weight(grams) 412g
