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The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas: The Beckett Manuscript Project

Autor Dr James Little
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 2023
This volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976) and Footfalls (1976), all translated into French by their author. Including analyses of abandoned archival precursors - the 'Kilcool' drafts (1963) and the 'Petit Odéon' Fragments (1967-1968) - the book covers a crucial period in Beckett's playwriting career, during which his long-held ambition to stage a mouth babbling in the dark became a catalyst for some of his most innovative work. This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the history of the three plays, tracking their development from compositional manuscripts through to publication and performance. The book contends that these plays should be seen as stagings of the subject-object breakdown explored in Beckett's early writing. Drawing on the notes he took on psychology and psychoanalysis in 1934-1935, it examines the many psychological and psychoanalytic concepts that are used in the author's later stagings of the mind. The plays are analysed through the lens of enactive cognition: not as representations of particular psychological conditions, but as pieces which encourage active interpretation on the part of their audiences. By staging minds in states of breakdown that resist diagnosis, Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas enact the subject-object breakdown that is such a key part of Beckett's aesthetics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350269057
ISBN-10: 1350269050
Pagini: 520
Dimensiuni: 170 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Beckett Manuscript Project

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Reconstructs the text's complete manuscript history, from genesis and early notes to full publication history

Notă biografică

James Little is a postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University, Brno and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, where his research focuses on Irish writing, genetic criticism and performance. He is the author of Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space (2020).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on the TranscriptionsList of Illustrations Introduction: Beckett's BreakdownsPART IThe Making of Not I / Pas moi1 Documents1.1 Autograph Manuscripts1.1.1 English1.1.2 French1.2 Typescripts1.2.1 English1.2.2 French1.3 Setting Copies, Galleys and Annotated Copies1.3.1 English1.4 Pre-book Publications1.4.1 French1.5 Editions1.5.1 English (UK)1.5.2 English (US)1.5.3 French1.5.4 Multilingual1.6 Playscripts and Production Notes1.6.1 English1.7 Genetic Map2 The Genesis of Not I / Pas moi 2.1 Before Not I / Pas moi 2.1.1 'Kilcool'2.1.2' Petit Odéon' Fragments2.2 The Genesis of Not I 2.2.1 Chronology 2.2.2 Genesis 2.3 The Genesis of Pas moi2.3.1 Chronology 2.3.2 Genesis PART IIThe Making of That Time / Cette fois3 Documents3.1 Autograph Manuscripts 3.1.1 English3.1.2 French3.2 Typescripts3.2.1 English3.2.2 French3.3 Setting Copies and Galleys3.3.1 English3.3.2 French3.4 Editions3.4.1 English (UK)3.4.2 English (US)3.4.3 French3.4.4 Multilingual3.5 Playscripts and Production Notes3.5.1 English3.5.2 Multilingual3.6 Genetic Map4 The Genesis of That Time / Cette fois4.1 The Genesis of That Time 4.1.1 Chronology 4.1.2 Genesis 4.2 The Genesis of Cette fois4.2.1 Chronology4.2.2 Genesis PART IIIThe Making of Footfalls / Pas5 Documents5.1 Autograph Manuscripts5.1.1 English5.2 Typescripts5.2.1 English 5.2.2 French5.3 Setting Copies, Galleys and Page Proofs5.3.1 English5.3.2 French5.4 Pre-book Publications5.4.1 French5.5 Editions5.5.1 English (UK) 5.5.2 English (US)5.5.3 French5.5.4 Multilingual5.6 Playscripts, Production notes and Annotated Copies5.6.1 English5.6.2 Multilingual5.7 Genetic Map6 The Genesis of Footfalls / Pas6.1 The Genesis of Footfalls 6.1.1 Chronology6.1.2 Genesis6.2 The Genesis of Pas6.2.1 Chronology 6.2.2 GenesisConclusion: Beckett's 'dark matter'Works CitedIndex

Recenzii

With this monograph, Little effectively convinces us that the successive drafts offer evidence of a heightening of interpretive ambiguity and uncertainty that blurs the line between self and other, inside and outside, reality and fiction. "Doing this", Little concludes, "will probably not solve the questions asked by these works - Who is Godot? What happened to Mouth in the field? Is May alive or dead? - but it can help us better understand how these questions are posed" (483). For all these reasons, this volume in the BDMP series is without doubt a highly commendable and very rewarding read for those researchers interested in an in-depth foray into Beckett's late theatre and creative mind.