The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett [Hardcover]

The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.Written by a team of renowned scholars, The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments while prompting further exploration.Written by a team of renowned scholars, The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments while prompting further exploration.In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett studies today. This companion considers Beckett's lasting significance by addressing a host of relevant topics. Written by a team of renowned scholars, this volume presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism, intertextuality, late modernism, history, philosophy, ethics, body and mind. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments in Beckett studies while prompting further exploration, assisted by the guide to further reading.1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' John Pilling; 2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped Angela Moorjani; 3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' Peter Boxall; 4. Waiting for Godot and l