Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies: Essays on Archives, Philosophy & Methodology in Beckett Studies

Feldman, Matthew

ISBN 10: 3838206363 / ISBN 13: 9783838206363

Published by Ibidem-Verlag, 2015

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• Title: Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies: Essays on Archives, Philosophy & Methodology in Beckett Studies
• Publisher: Ibidem-Verlag
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838206363
• ISBN 13: 9783838206363
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1751862308.
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterized, 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 analyze his later collaboration with the Bbc through the lens of literary history. Falsifying Beckett 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.