CoSMo : "Samuel Beckett", 2015
Sous la direction de Federico Sabatini
EAN 201422816658.
Présentation de l'éditeur :
A monograph issue of the Journal Cosmo - Comparative Studies in Modernism edited by Federico Sabatini and devoted to Samuel Beckett. Sarting from the general conceptual assumption of Beckett being both a modernist and postmodernist author, the essays in the volume (by Ann Banfield, Daniela Caselli, Edward Bizub, Keir Elam and others) examine Beckett's works from various methodological approaches and all reflect afresh on the author's multifaceted poetics and aesthetics.
From the Introduction by Federico Sabatini:
“It only means that there will be a new form; and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else. The form and the chaos remain separate. The latter is not reduced to the former. That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now” (Samuel Beckett)
"The Centro Studi Arti della Modernità of the University of Turin organized a conference in November 2013 entitled Samuel Beckett. Modern/Postmodern. Its aim was to gather researchers from different countries who showed various scholarly and critical approaches to Beckett, so as to reveal how the impossibility of such a dichotomist labeling (modern-postmodern) still somehow informs our understanding, perception, and critical analysis of Beckett, in a fruitful and stimulating manifold inquiry that embraces difference as its most precious value. The papers delivered at the conference, which are collected in this issue of CoSMo, reflected such a methodological variety and they insightfully covered a wide range of topics concerning those themes and styles that Beckett expressed and recreated in his very diverse works and genres. As this issue of the journal shows, Beckett is analyzed and discussed according to several critical methods, ranging from Genetic Criticism to Generative Linguistics (embracing linguistics and literary criticism), Philosophy, Close Reading, Translation Studies and Criticism, and Comparative Literature"
Federico Sabatini