Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe: A new title from Palgrave

Among the clutch of new titles in Beckett Studies comes Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe from Palgrave Macmillan. Edited by Michiko Tsushima, Yoshiki Tajiri, Mariko Hori Tanaka, the volume promises to be ‘a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and…

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New Essay Collection from Manchester UP

Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, remediation, appropriation Coming in February from Manchester University Press is a collection of essays dealing with the numerous and various adaptations of Beckett’s works. Edited by Jonathan Bignell, Pim Verhulst and Anna McMullan, the volume is is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. Its pre-publication description promisies a volume…

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New title in Elements series. Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form by Trish McTighe

The latest title in Cambridge University Press Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form examines and contextualizes the long history of mounting festivals of Beckett’s work in the country of his birth. The summary suggests that the phenomenon of ‘festivalising’ Beckett in Ireland ‘might…

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New Publication: Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives by Marco Bernini. OUP, 2022.

Oxford University Press has just published a new monograph by Marco Bernini. Titled Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives, the author argues ‘that Samuel Beckett’s narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as an introspective modeling technology’ and that ‘Beckett pioneered a…

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New Publication: Absorption and Theatricality: On Ghost Trio by Conor Carville

The latest publciation in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett series is titled Absorption and Theatricality: On Ghost Trio and comes from the University of Reading’s Conor Carville. It is a welcome intervention on such a lightly studied work and promises to encourage further research in the area. As the publisher’s note asserts: ‘Samuel Beckett’s 1976…

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Call for Papers for Proposed Edited Volume: Samuel Beckett and the 21st Century Novel

A call for papers has been issued by ibidem-verlag’s ‘Samuel Beckett in Company’ series editor, Paul Stewart, Professor of Literature, University of Nicosia, for a proposed edited volume with the title Samuel Beckett and the 21st Century Novel. Professor Stewart writes: ‘Beckett’s influence on an older generation of novelists, such as Coetzee, Banville, Auster and…

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