Tag: Beckett

LECTURE: Theorising Beckett’s Influence on 21st Century Fiction.

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Dr Paul Stewart “the end is in the beginning and yet you go on”  Theorising Beckett’s Influence on 21st Century Fiction. Venue: Department of English Studies, Conference Room University of Cyprus 9 Klimentos Str. (2nd floor, Eliades Building), 1061 Nicosia Zoom link: https://ucy.zoom.us/j/68544333476?pwd=vjOPCVRqZmZmD1qAk8f7rLnvvv2cfE.1 Wednesday, 9 October 2024 @ 16:00 Beckett’s fiction has most often been considered as a literary end point. For example, for Pascale

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CFP: Greying the Carnival – Samuel Beckett Inverting/Inverting Samuel Beckett

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Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTRCologne, Germany, 9th–13th June 2024 Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious

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NEW BOOK: Bowie, Beckett, and Being

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Bowie, Beckett, and Being: The Art of AlienationRodney Sharkey | Bloomsbury Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of their artistic practices, the study also illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms

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BOOK: Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett

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Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations By Matthew Fogarty Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature This new publication reconceptualises Friedrich Nietzsche’s position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist

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CFP: Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR 2023

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Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR in Accra, Ghana, 24th-28th July 2023 Samuel Beckett’s Drama and the Undoing of Myths of Empire and Imperialism Beckett’s life is a dance between imperialisms, colonialisms and independence struggles. He has been portrayed, if not as a border thinker, at least as an artist for whom borders shaped his life, political thinking and artistic

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CFP: Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa

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Geographies of Comparison: Ireland / Africa (ACLA 2017, Utrecht, July 6-9, 2017)) Deadline for submissions: September 23, 2016 Full name / name of organization: Cóilín Parsons Contact email: coilin.parsons@georgetown.edu  Ireland was, as Robert Young writes, England’s first and always exceptional colony. But it was far from the only one. Its unique colonial status has yielded productive scholarship addressing its anomalous

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