Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies

Lois Oppenheim 2004

E-Book: 275 English pages

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Samuel Beckett is arguably the most celebrated playwright of the twentieth-century. His work in the theatre revolutionised the art of writing for the stage and that of performance. As a novelist, Beckett also obliterated previously-held notions of that genre and renewed our thinking on the meaning of narrative. Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies offers a comprehensive exploration of the various critical approaches to Beckett’s writing and of the evolution of Beckett criticism in recent years. It will appeal to the specialist and non-specialist alike, for it contains both an overview of the field and investigates current debates within the interdisciplinary critical arena. Each of the contributors is an eminent Beckett specialist who has published widely in the field.

About the Author

LOIS OPPENHEIM is Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French, German, and Russian at Montclair State University. A past president of the International Samuel Beckett Society, she has published widely on philosophical and psychoanalytic aesthetics and in French studies. Her books on Beckett include The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett’s Dialogue With Art (2000), Samuel Beckett and the Arts (1999),Directing Beckett (1994,1997), (co-edited with Marius Buning) Beckett On and On… (1996) and Beckett in the 1990s (1993).