The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. Authored by Society past-president Patrick Bixby, Quotidian Beckett: Art of Everyday Life will explore the writer’s ‘enduring preoccupation with the quotidian rhythms of modern life, including the experiences of boredom, routine, habit, and consumption.’ By drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s influential theories of…
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The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been announced. Beckett and Leopardi is co-authored by Peter Boxall and Peter Nicholls aims to read Beckett in conjunction with Italian author Giacomo Leopardi arguing ‘that the dialogue between them might offer new ways of thinking about the nature of both writers’ pessimism’. Boxall and…
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Free Download available here until 21 July 2025 The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been announced. Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett is authored by Emilie Morin, and is a study of Beckett’s long-time partner and wife Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900-1989). As Morin points out, little has been written about Suzanne probably…
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The latest publication in the series Cambridge Elements has just been announced. Authored by Andre Furlani and titled Pilgrim’s Gress: The Beckett Walk, this volume examines the central role of walking within Beckett’s oeuvre. Furlani argues that ‘the walk begins as a motif, becomes a rhythm, expands into a compositional principle, and culminates in an…
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The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. As outlined in the book’s abstract, Beckett and Cioran, by Steven Matthews, discusses the association between Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett’s engagement with…
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The latest publication in the Cambridge Elements series is Bad Godots: Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel and Other Interventions by veteran Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski. According to its abstract, this volume ‘focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.…
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Download for free for a limited period The highly-anticipated, latest title in the Cambridge University Press ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’ series has just been released. Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality, as its summary argues ‘rethinks the role of gender politics in the oeuvre, demonstrates Beckett’s historical importance in the development of the “antisocial thesis” in…
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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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A colloquium in honour of the Beckett pioneer Rosemary Pountney is to be held at Jesus College, Oxford on 28 January 2022. Launching the Cambridge University Press series ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’, the event will include contributions from authors whose work has already been published in the series over the past year. The series is…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 