17 research outputs found
Book review : 'Publishing Samuel Beckett'
No full textBook review of 'Publishing Samuel Beckett' by Mark Nixon (editor). London: British Library, 2011; ISBN:9780712358262.3 page(s
Book review : The fleshy side of the mind
No full textBook review of 'Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger' by Fiona Wright. Giramondo, 2015, ISBN:9781922146939.8 page(s
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans : modernist autonomy and transnational performance in Paul Chan's Beckett
No full textIn 2007, Paul Chan mounted a project, Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, that took as its centerpiece the performance of Samuel Beckett's modernist play Waiting for Godot in the devastated streets of post-Katrina New Orleans. This essay argues that this transnational, community-based performance of a quintessentially modernist play offers a way of reconceptualizing transnational modernism in light of the dynamics of performance, and intercultural and community-based theatre practices in light of the pressures of modernist autonomy. Read in this light, Chan's project emerges as a provocative attempt to redeploy the autonomous, decontextualizing impulses of Beckett's play, putting them to work as the basis for new community formations and forms of social and political engagement.21 page(s
The Non-lieu of hunger : post-war Beckett and the genealogies of starvation
No full textHunger is a pervasive trope in Beckett's major works of the post-war period. This article examines the possibilities for situating this trope historically. It seeks to mediate between the tendency of hunger to resist contextual markers, and the competing historical narratives of Irish and French history - the Famine and hunger strikes on the one hand, and World War II rationing and food shortages on the other - that predispose us to read hunger as a point of engagement with history and nation.15 page(s
Book review : 'Beckett and phenomenology'
No full textBook review of 'Beckett and Phenomenology', edited by Ulrika Maude and Matthew Feldman. London and New York: Continuum, 2009.3 page(s
Book review : 'Samuel Beckett : laughing matters, comic timing'
No full textBook review of 'Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing' by Laura Salisbury. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0748647484.4 page(s
Against Culinary Art: Mina Loy and the Modernist Starving Artist
No full textDraws from Hemingway\u27s significant contributions (via A Moveable Feast) to the social idea of the starving artist as a way of examining the modernist distaste for culinary art and other threads of philosophy and aesthetics. Culminates in a discussion of Mina Loy\u27s posthumous novel Insel (1991), which introduces a rarely seen feminist parable of the making of a female starving artist
The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism
No full textBriefly discusses Hemingway\u27s identification in A Moveable Feast with the starving artist figure to stage his aesthetic autonomy from the market and thereby legitimize his artistry
