The Theatre of the Absurd With Reference to Modernism by Safdar Rashid

“…<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Jameel Noori Nastaleeq&quot;; mso-bidi-language: ER;">A reasonable introduction to the theater of the absurd is available in Urdu literary and scholarly circles, especially of Samuel Beckett's world-renowned play <em>Waiting for Godot</em>, which has had at least two translations in Urdu and one in Punjabi. …”
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Cliché, Irony and the Necessity of Meaning in Endgame and Infinite Jest by James Cetkovski

“…With reference to the work of the ordinary language philosopher Stanley Cavell, this essay argues that David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest deploys cliché to expose the workings of ironic language in a way that is complementary to a similar exposition in Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Endgame.…”
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Lire les effets de voix by Dominique Rabaté

“…This article concerns questions of voice, enunciation and the narrator in the works of Louis-René des Forêts, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Henri Michaux, Fyodor Dostoyevsky,et al.…”
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SWANN ORGANIQUE (EN PASSANT PAR BECKETT PANOPTIQUE) by Sjef Houppermans

“…Comme quoi l´univers de Swann est une aire de dissémination que Samuel Beckett sonde exemplairement dans son étude de 1930.…”
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Reviews of recent publications by various authors

“…Rewriting the Good Fight Critical Essays on the Literature ofthe Spanish Civil War by John Crispin Connor, Steven. Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text by Maria Minich Brewer Jordan, Barry. …”
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Dramaturgia cabo-verdiana: a “crioulização” como adaptação de textos dramáticos universais ao contexto do arquipélago by Micaela Barbosa

“…Ensaio sobre dramaturgia cabo-verdiana e a adaptação de textos dramáticos, com foco na obra de Samuel Beckett À Espera de Godot.…”
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Un peu de poésie. Qualche eco baudelairiana in Beckett e Proust by Luzius Keller

“…This essay examines the nuances and differences in this re-use of a Baudelairian text between Samuel Beckett’s play and Marcel Proust’s novel.…”
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SWANN ORGANIQUE (EN PASSANT PAR BECKETT PANOPTIQUE) by Sjef Houppermans

“…Comme quoi l´univers de Swann est une aire de dissémination que Samuel Beckett sonde exemplairement dans son étude de 1930.…”
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Heidegger's Time in the Play "Waiting for Godot" by Mahmoud Soufiani, Hossein Asl Abdollahi, Mohammad Farahmand, Ebrahim Danesh

“…Undoubtedly, every philosophical thought is manifested in different forms in literary and artistic works, and among them there are writers and artists who use philosophy as the basis of their works. Samuel Beckett is one of the most influential writers in shaping the school of thought of Absurd Theater, which has its roots in philosophy. …”
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Deleuze: by Ulysses Pinheiro

“…O artigo examina a interpretação que Gilles Deleuze oferece para a obra televisiva de Samuel Beckett, especialmente para uma delas, Quad. Através do contraponto entre seus comentários de Beckett e de Leibniz, mostra-se que Deleuze mobiliza um conceito de linguagem que pode ser recusado a partir de uma leitura do próprio texto de Beckett.…”
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Character's stream of consciousness as a specific literature technique in novella The Expelled by S. Beckett by E A Koshkina

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of Samuel Beckett's creative activity. The uniqueness of stylistics and poetics of the avant-garde writer has been described. …”
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Mid-twentieth century radio art: The ontological insecurity of the radio text by Pedro Querido

“…I explore how the evanescence commonly associated with sound in general and radio in particular caused mid-twentieth century radio practitioners like Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard to strive for both the simplicity of a superficially intelligible aural text and the complexity stemming from the thematisation of ambiguity and epistemological uncertainty.…”
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“R.C.”: Rosicrucianism and Cartesianism in Joyce and Beckett by Steven Bond

“…We consider both of these theoretical frameworks as likely reference points for Joyce, making extensive use of the early works of Samuel Beckett in arguing for each case.…”
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Beckett. Una imagen imperceptible by Manuel Ignacio Moyano

“…En este ensayo presentamos un recorrido sobre diversos materiales de la obra de Samuel Beckett, con especial énfasis en su única película llamada Film, para señalar, con la ayuda de diversos autores y pensadores (Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Jorge Luis Borges y Emmanuele Coccia, entre otros), cómo en algunas obstinaciones beckettianas es pensable algo así como una imagen imperceptible.…”
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Máquinas desumanizadoras, máquinas humanizadoras: sobre o teatro e a tecnologia by Eunice Gonçalves Duarte

“…Partindo da análise de três peças de teatro, A voz humana de Jean Cocteau, The Gigli concert de Thomas Murphy e Krapp’s last tape de Samuel Beckett, pretende-se questionar de que forma as relações contemporâneas entre homem e máquina são exploradas no teatro.…”
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The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation by John Greaney (London: Bloomsbury 2022) by Barry Sheils

“…Challenging the theoretical paradigms prevalent in contemporary Irish Studies, the book invites us to interrogate the meta-historical and political narratives that inform our reading of literary works by Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, John McGahern, and Kate O’Brien.…”
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L’horizon dans Foley (2000) de Michael West : vers une poétique de la redite by Emmanuelle Guedj

“…In this, he is reminiscent of the tramps, tinkers, and strangers staged by the Irish Revival in the early 20th century and of many of Samuel Beckett’s characters. West’s Foley also exposes the layers of memory composing his conflicting identity and plays with metatheatricality by exposing the artificial horizon of his own story.…”
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Manganelli’s hilarious-tragic theatre (between Beckett and Bacon) by Filippo Milani

“…<p>The Italian reception of Samuel Beckett’s works, even though late, finds in Giorgio Manganelli one of the most careful and punctual interpreters. …”
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Introduction: Contemporary Literary Renaissances by Catherine Bernard, Vanessa Guignery

“…In addition to articles engaging with the notion of rebirth in contemporary novels and poems, this issue includes an essay on the concept of exhaustion in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.…”
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Let's Relax! – Positions Episode 2 by Andrew Culp, Hui Peng, Leigh Jackson, Hannah Simpson, Patrick McKelvey

“…Hannah Simpson, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and author of "Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance" (Palgrave, 2022). …”
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