Beckett's Thing : : Painting and Theatre / / David Lloyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Lloyd, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Other Becketts : OTBE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 62 illustrations

Explores Samuel Beckett's relation to painting and the visual imagination that informs his theatrical workRead an interview with David LloydBeckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings. He explains what visual resources Beckett found in these particular painters rather than in the surrealism of Masson or the abstraction of Kandinsky or Mondrian. The analysis of Beckett's visual imagination is based on his criticism and on close analysis of the paintings he viewed. Lloyd shows how Beckett's fascination with these painters illuminates the 'painterly' qualities of his theatre and the philosophical, political and aesthetic implications of Beckett's highly visual dramatic work.Key FeaturesDiscusses Beckett's relationship with three painters crucial to his life-long dialogue with the visual artsThe first book to examine the paintings that Beckett would have known and on which he based his critical remarksAccounts for the increasing visuality of Beckett's theatre in relation to his evolving appreciation of painting and the formal questions posed by that mediumExplores Beckett's anticipation of European phenomenology and psychoanalysis in relation to Heidegger and Lacan"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Elusive Melody: Music and Trauma in New Woman Short Stories -- 3. Beyond the Haunted House? Modernist Women's Ghost Stories and the Troubling of Modernity -- 4. Potboilers or 'Glimpses' of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story -- 5. War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen -- 6. 'Haunted, whether we like it or not': The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark -- 7. Disaggregative Character Identity and the Politics of Aesthetic In-betweenness in Angela Carter's Short Narratives -- 8. New Waves of Interest: Women's Short Story Writing in the Late Twentieth Century -- 9. Feminist F(r)iction: Short Stories and Postfeminist Politics at the Millennial Moment -- 10. Class as Destiny in the Short Stories of Tessa Hadley -- 11. Address, Temporality and Misdelivery: The Postal Effects of Ali Smith's Short Stories -- 12. Housewives and Half-Stories: A Question of Genre Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Other Becketts: Series Preface General Editor: S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University -- Introduction: The Painted Stage - Beckett's Visual Aesthetics -- 1 Republics of Difference: Yeats, MacGreevy, Beckett -- 2 Beckett's Thing: Bram van Velde and the Gaze -- 3 'Siege laid again': Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage -- Conclusion: The Play's the Thing -- Bibliography -- Index