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Beckett at 100 : revolving it all / edited by Linda Ben-Zvi and Angela Moorjani. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors; Introduction; Images. For Ruby Cohn; Part I. Thinking Through Beckett; Part Ii. Shifting Perspectives; Part Iii. Echoing Beckett; Index.

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading international Beckett scholars from ten countries, who take on the centenary challenge of "revolving it all": that is, going "back to Beckett"--The title of an earlier study by critic Ruby Cohn, to whom the book is dedicated-in order to rethink traditional readings and theories; provide new contexts and associations; and reassess his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to futur


English.

ISBN: 9780198043645 (electronic bk.) 0198043643 (electronic bk.) 9781435620353 (electronic bk.) 1435620356 (electronic bk.) 0195325486 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780195325485 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0195325478 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780195325478 (cloth ; alk. paper) 1281165441 9781281165442 9786611165444 6611165444

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA812941 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014507669 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Authors, Irish.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PR6003.E282 / Z5716 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 848/.91409