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Samuel Beckett

History, Memory, Archive

Palgrave Macmillan

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About this book

This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett as a figure that cannot be read historically by drawing on new archival materials and situating his finished works in their historical context.

Keywords

  • Beckett
  • fiction
  • history of literature
  • Samuel Beckett
  • theatre
  • British and Irish Literature

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"The essays in this collection, individually and collectively, revitalize Beckett Studies with a fresh transfusion of new ideas.The authors successfully recuperate the Historical Beckett - an artist attuned to, engaged with, and indeed produced by his history." - Graley Herren, Associate Professor of English, Xavier University

About the authors

SEÁN KENNEDY is Assistant Professor of English at St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.   KATHERINE WEISS is Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, USA.

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