Beckett and media

Open Access Published by Manchester University Press 2021

Beckett and media

Edited by: Balazs Rapcsak , Mark Nixon and Philipp Schweighauser

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526145840

Overview
Contents

About this book

This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work.

Author / Editor information

Balazs Rapcsak is a doctoral candidate in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Basel
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading
Philipp Schweighauser is Professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel

Topics

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Balazs Rapcsak and Mark Nixon Open Access Download PDF	1
I: Literature and theatre
1 In search of times gone by Stimuli, signals and wireless telegraphy in Beckett’s novel Watt Wolf Kittler Open Access Download PDF	15
2 Beckett’s exhausted media Armin Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	31
3 Micro-drama / techno-trauma Between theatre as cultural form and true media theatre Wolfgang Ernst Open Access Download PDF	48
4 Electrifying theatre Beckett’s media mysticism in and beyond Rough for Theatre II Balazs Rapcsak Open Access Download PDF	65
5 Beckett, the proscenium, media Martin Harries Open Access Download PDF	86
II: Screens and airwaves
6 Beckett’s intermedial bodies Remediating theatre through radio Pim Verhulst Open Access Download PDF	107
7 Angles of immunity Beckett’s Film Philipp Schweighauser Open Access Download PDF	123
8 Beckett’s affective telepoetics Ulrika Maude Open Access Download PDF	140
9 Understanding Quad Julian Murphet Open Access Download PDF	155
10 Black screens Beckett and television technologies Jonathan Bignell Open Access Download PDF	177
III: Digital Beckett
11 Directing Play in digital culture Nicholas Johnson Open Access Download PDF	197
12 Editing Beckett in digital media Towards a digital Complete Works Edition Dirk Van Hulle Open Access Download PDF	215
Index Open Access Download PDF	229

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Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Other: 8 black & white illustrations, 1 table
Keywords: digital humanities; intermediality; media; media aesthetics; media history; media theory; Samuel Beckett; technology; telecommunication; television

eBook

Published: March 22, 2022
ISBN: 9781526145840