Beckett (NP)

[JD]

And apologies, of course I am aware of the modern world, how could I not
be!  That's how I found my way here to begin with :)

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:07 PM, JD <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> Yeah I was mainly looking for books to dig into.  samuel-beckett.net,
> well, I perused it but it isn't exactly a "perusing" kind of site it seems
> :P  Perhaps when I'm less tired.
>
> Oomph, End of Modernity is $155.  Uh, pass.  I suppose there's always that
> - what is it - lie...berry?  For some reason when it comes to personal
> interest I'm totally uninterested in renting books as I like to have them
> around.  I'm a greedy sumbitch it seems.  As well as one who, apparently,
> has absolutely no desire for anything short of a barren crawlspace left in
> my apartment.
>
> I'm ordering Damned to Fame, Naming Beckett's Unnamable, Dismemberment of
> Orpheus, and The Stoic Comedians.
>
> Should keep me good for awhile.
>
> I wrote a quick email to someone who had written a recent article on the
> staging of his plays and he recommended I look into John Calder.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM, JD <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I seem to be sending a lot of NP queries of late, my apologies.
>> >
>> > Can anyone recommend any good material regarding the discussion of his
>> work
>> > - preferably books?  I'm at a complete loss at where to begin beyond the
>> > work itself, and I don't know a lot of literate circles whose mass
>> opinion I
>> > am inclined to be interested by.
>>
>> First off, The Modern Word isn't JUST about Pynchon ...
>>
>> http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_criticism.html
>>
>> And see as well ...
>>
>> http://www.samuel-beckett.net/
>>
>> Plus some personal favorites ...
>>
>> Richard Begam, Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity
>> Herbert Blau, Sails of the Herring Fleet
>> Ihab Hassan, The Dismemberment of Orpheus
>> Hugh Kenner, The Stoic Comedians
>> John Pilling, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Beckett
>>
>> ... but despite SB being 2nd only to TP for me, I haven't been nearly
>> as obsessive about the secondary lit'rachure/critical
>> apparatus/whatever, so I'll be happy to get some recommednations as
>> well ...
>>
>
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