The New Samuel Beckett Studies

Description

This collection explains developments within Beckett studies and why he has emerged as one of the most iconic writers of the twentieth century. It also proposes a new interpretive framework that explores both the expanded canon, which has doubled the volume of his works in the last ten years, and the new methods used to approach it. This book covers all the most recent approaches to the Beckett study, such as archival research, queer theory, mathematical readings of literature, neuro-scientific approaches, translation studies, and disability studies. These new approaches are shown to be relevant and necessary to provide a renewed understanding of the lasting value of Beckett's works.

Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, a curator of Slought Foundation, an editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, former President of the Samuel Beckett society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has authored or edited more than thirty-five books on modernism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Recent publications include Rust (2018), Kafka L.O.L. (2018), and the edited volume After Derrida (Cambridge, 2018).