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Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism

Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now such concerns have remained the stuff of scholarly footnotes and asides. Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism addresses these issues head-on and investigates how Beckett’s ideas about who he writes for affect what he writes. What it finds speaks to current understandings not only of Beckett’s techniques and ambitions, but also of modernism’s experiments as fundam...

Beckett Beyond the Normal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Beckett Beyond the Normal

Explores Beckett's artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studiesThe first volume to address norms and normalcy as an enduring target of Beckettian skepticismShifts the emphasis from generic talk of 'Other Becketts' to specific accounts of the queer, the disabling, the abnormalising aspects of the mature worksAbsorbs and transcends the philosophy/history binary that has shaped the last twenty yearsBrings Beckett Studies into the twenty-first century as the first intersectional volume to address queerness, disability and biopolitics togetherThis book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in 'abnormals' and 'degenerates'? How did he reconceive 'the human' in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett's voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal.

Writing from the Margins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

Writing from the Margins

  • Categories: Art

The Irish short story tradition occupies a unique space in world literature. Rooted in an ancient oral storytelling culture, the Irish short story has underwent numerous transitions, from 19th century Anglo-Irish writers such as William Carleton through to the 20th century's groundbreaking impact of George Moore's The Untilled Field. George Moore's work inspired the next generation of Irish Catholic writers such as Joyce, Frank O'Connor and Benedict Kiely, who foregrounded the backbone of the ...

John Banville
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

John Banville

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, as well as the ‘Quirke’ crime novels he has written under the pseudonym, Benjamin Black and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. From the beginning, Banville’s work has been marked both by the presence of a complex, embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-conscious obsession with its own status as art. His novels perpetually reveal an overt fascination with the visual arts, in particular, and with the aesthetic principle of literature as art. This study argues that, as a whole, Banville’s work presents an elaborate and richly-textured coded account of hi...

Dive into Taiwan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Dive into Taiwan

Taiwan is a Pacific island – actually several islands: a big one and some smaller satellites – surrounded by warm tropical seas. It is easily accessible, has excellent transportation and is a first-world society with out-going, friendly, laid-back people. Especially in the south and on several of the outlying islands, there is some very good scuba diving and also a network of dive centres and resorts with first-class professional staff and equipment. They provide services for a young generation of Taiwanese, who are driving development in the sport with considerable enthusiasm. Yet, when divers elsewhere in the world think about diving destinations, Taiwan is rarely even a blip on their ...

Analytics, Innovation, and Excellence-Driven Enterprise Sustainability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Analytics, Innovation, and Excellence-Driven Enterprise Sustainability

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-04-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book offers a unique view of how innovation and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological knowledge and legitimacy through new knowledge resources. Organizational intelligence integrates the technology variable into production and business systems, establishing a basis to advance decision-making processes. When strategically integrated, these factors have the power to promote enterprise resilience, robustness, and sustainability. This book provides a unique perspective on how knowledge, information, and data analytics create opportunities and challenges for sustainable enterprise excellence. It also shows how the value of digital technology at both personal and industrial levels leads to new opportunities for creating experiences, processes, and organizational forms that fundamentally reshape organizations.

Beckett's Intuitive Spectator
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Beckett's Intuitive Spectator

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this book charts the processes of how an audience member’s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett’s film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.

Rise to Honor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Rise to Honor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Bradygames

Rise to the Occasion in this Action Game with the Help of BradyGames' Strategy Guide! BradyGames'Rise to Honor Official Strategy Guidefeatures a detailed walkthrough leading players through every level in the game. Exhaustive weapon and enemy rosters detail the best ways to defeat each foe. Unstoppable boss strategy. Plus, game secrets, cheats and more, revealed! BradyGames is Official and Exclusive on this title. Platform: PlayStation 2 Rise to Honoris a cinematic third-person action game featuring a top-notch martial arts system and actor Jet Li. The famous actor provides the voice work and the moves--via motion capture--for the game's main character, Kit Yun. Gamers assume the role of Kit...

Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1326

Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Student Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Student Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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