{"title":"Samuel Beckett’s Guidance on The Unnamable","authors":"David Roe","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45134291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samuel Beckett and Translation, ed. José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre Garcia, and Translating Samuel Beckett around the World, ed. José Francisco Fernández and Pascale Sardin","authors":"P. Stewart","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41967737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses a recently discovered copy of William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth that once belonged to Samuel Beckett when he was a student at Portora Royal in 1922. Although the volume is in private hands, scans of the annotated pages are freely available in the Beckett Digital Library of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. Compared to other surviving works by and on Shakespeare in Beckett’s possession, the Macbeth schoolboy copy shows an unusual abundance of reading traces and marginalia. However, passages that are not underlined or otherwise marked turn out to be equally important for an assessment of the play’s impact on Beckett’s writing, in addition to a grey zone of indeterminate or conceptual references that are harder to classify as allusions. This is especially the case when Beckett’s style becomes sparser, and he explores other dramatic genres such as radio or television alongside prose and theatre. By way of introduction, the article analyses some of these instances in more detail while providing more context about the book’s provenance.
{"title":"‘Learn by heart’: Beckett’s Schoolboy Copy of Shakespeare’s Macbeth","authors":"Pim Verhulst, Dirk van Hulle","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0371","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses a recently discovered copy of William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth that once belonged to Samuel Beckett when he was a student at Portora Royal in 1922. Although the volume is in private hands, scans of the annotated pages are freely available in the Beckett Digital Library of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. Compared to other surviving works by and on Shakespeare in Beckett’s possession, the Macbeth schoolboy copy shows an unusual abundance of reading traces and marginalia. However, passages that are not underlined or otherwise marked turn out to be equally important for an assessment of the play’s impact on Beckett’s writing, in addition to a grey zone of indeterminate or conceptual references that are harder to classify as allusions. This is especially the case when Beckett’s style becomes sparser, and he explores other dramatic genres such as radio or television alongside prose and theatre. By way of introduction, the article analyses some of these instances in more detail while providing more context about the book’s provenance.","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44975647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corey Wakeling's Beckett’s Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure","authors":"J. Mcallister","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49668792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay interprets Imagination Dead Imagine as the product of Beckett’s own autology, in Arnold Geulincx’s sense of the term. The Cartesian occasionalist advanced that self-inspection culminates with the revelation of human beings’ fundamental ignorance and impotence. I suggest that the short text borrows Geulingian themes and imagery to offer a dazzling vision – from the point of view of eternity – of the radical atomization and opacity of the human condition. Furthermore, I explore how Beckett generates a specifically Geulingian commentary on a debate that obsessed him throughout his life: the problem of the subject-object relation and the self-to-self relation in artistic representation. Finally, I propose to read the paradoxical imperative ‘imagination dead imagine’ as a Geulingian axiom in its own right, that is, as an inescapable obligation whose fulfilment is quasi-impossible.
{"title":"No Trace Anywhere of Life, Perhaps: Autology and Hauntology in Imagination Dead Imagine","authors":"F. Vozel","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0372","url":null,"abstract":"This essay interprets Imagination Dead Imagine as the product of Beckett’s own autology, in Arnold Geulincx’s sense of the term. The Cartesian occasionalist advanced that self-inspection culminates with the revelation of human beings’ fundamental ignorance and impotence. I suggest that the short text borrows Geulingian themes and imagery to offer a dazzling vision – from the point of view of eternity – of the radical atomization and opacity of the human condition. Furthermore, I explore how Beckett generates a specifically Geulingian commentary on a debate that obsessed him throughout his life: the problem of the subject-object relation and the self-to-self relation in artistic representation. Finally, I propose to read the paradoxical imperative ‘imagination dead imagine’ as a Geulingian axiom in its own right, that is, as an inescapable obligation whose fulfilment is quasi-impossible.","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43424224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Between October 1975 and November 1976, Samuel Beckett began, revised and abandoned a manuscript for a prose piece entitled ‘Long Observation of the Ray’ (at least) twice. After a period of writing for television, Beckett’s next foray into prose resulted in ‘The Voice/Verbatim’, a text that – due to its partial incorporation into Company – resists definition as either draft or abandoned work. This article parses Beckett’s motivations for abandoning (and reabandoning) these pieces and demonstrates that the ‘ray’ and the ‘voice’ partake in a broader conversation in Beckett’s work concerning the visual and the audible. The 1970s, a time of unprecedented modulation between media in Beckett’s writing, see Beckett almost capriciously tailoring images to fit media, or vice versa. His writing desk between 1975 and 1977 was home to ‘ends and odds’ in various media: two stage plays, two TV plays, a litany of poems and prose. Focusing on the writing that immediately preceded his first attempt at ‘Long Observation’, the works that come between its first and second abandonment, and the inception of Beckett’s late prose ‘trilogy’, this article argues that one can witness a negotiation between writing the ‘eye’ and the ‘ear’ as he wrangles with how to put the observations of the ‘ray’ and the overheard ‘voice’ in words. This article contextualises this dynamic within discourses surrounding modernism and the senses, philosophical responses to ‘ocularcentrism’ and the ways in which manuscript research can harmonize with Deleuze’s reading of Beckett’s ‘exhaustive’ language. Alongside this, investigations into Beckett’s late allusions to Dante’s description of Virgil’s hoarse voice or faint appearance and W. B. Yeats’s ‘deepening shades’ reveal this compositional struggle seeping into (or deriving from) Beckett’s reading habits; traversing the ‘ill-heard’ and the ‘ill-seen’, these references encapsulate Beckett’s ongoing struggle to isolate in words the senses of sight and hearing.
1975年10月至1976年11月，塞缪尔·贝克特（Samuel Beckett）两次开始、修改和放弃了一篇题为《射线的长期观察》（Long Observation of the Ray）的散文的手稿。在为电视写作一段时间后，贝克特下一次涉足散文创作了《声音/逐字逐句》 – 由于其部分并入公司 – 拒绝将其定义为草稿或废弃作品。本文分析了贝克特放弃（和重新创作）这些作品的动机，并表明在贝克特的作品中，“光线”和“声音”参与了一场关于视觉和听觉的更广泛的对话。20世纪70年代，在贝克特的写作中，媒体之间进行了前所未有的调整，贝克特几乎反复无常地调整图像以适应媒体，反之亦然。1975年至1977年间，他的办公桌上充斥着各种媒体的“极端和偶然”：两部舞台剧、两部电视剧、一系列诗歌和散文。专注于他第一次尝试“长期观察”之前的写作，这些作品介于第一次和第二次放弃之间，以及贝克特晚期散文“三部曲”的开始，这篇文章认为，当人们争论如何将对“射线”和无意中听到的“声音”的观察用文字表达时，可以看到写“眼睛”和“耳朵”之间的谈判。本文将这种动态置于围绕现代主义和感官的话语中，对“眼中心主义”的哲学回应，以及手稿研究与德勒兹对贝克特“详尽”语言的解读相协调的方式。除此之外，对贝克特后期引用但丁对维吉尔沙哑声音或微弱外表的描述以及W·B·叶芝的“阴影加深”的调查揭示了这种创作斗争渗透到（或源于）贝克特的阅读习惯；这些引用跨越了“听不见”和“看不见”，概括了贝克特一直在努力用语言隔离视觉和听觉。
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{"title":"Vice is Perhaps the Heart of Man","authors":"Georges Bataille","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48959826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sade and the Sovereign Man","authors":"Maurice Blanchot","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44191551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beckett sa Chreig: Laethanta Sona. Beckett in the Rock: Happy Days, directed by Sarah Jane Scaife (Company SJ & The Abbey Theatre Dublin)","authors":"D. Tubridy","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47907611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sade and the Problem of Evil","authors":"Pierre Klossowski","doi":"10.3366/jobs.2022.0355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2022.0355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41910858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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