Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated Watt - Couverture souple

Ackerley, Chris

 
9780748641512: Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated Watt
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0748641513 ISBN 13 : 9780748641512
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Obscure Locks, Simple Keys is a comprehensive study of this most enigmatic of all of SmauelBeckett's texts. Chris Ackerley's approach, which has some similarities to genetic editing, is based on an extensive study of the manuscripts and different editions (including the French translation, overseen by Beckett himself) of the novel, and the long introduction covers the complex history of the book's composition and publication. The book includes a thematic Index and extensive Bibliography, as well as two appendices: one deals with 'Textual changes and errata in the major editions of Watt'; the other with the tangled question of 'The evolution of Watt'. Most of the work, however, concerns the detailed annotation of the text, and examines the range of literary, religious and philosophical matters that have informed and shaped the text. The primary aim of the volume is to offer a complete exposition of the novel's disconcerting difficulties, but another major objective, given the parlous state of previous editions, was to identify and correct the long history of textual error, with a view to the future publication of a better text.

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À propos de l?auteur

Chris Ackerley is Professor and former Head of English at Otago University, New Zealand. His publications include extensive commentaries on Samuel Beckett and Malcolm Lowry. His speciality is annotation, and he is (with S.E. Gontarski) author of the Grove Press (2004) and Faber (2006) Companion to Samuel Beckett. He has recently edited Watt for Faber. He is writing a monograph on Beckett and Science and annotating several works by Lowry.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0748641513
ISBN 13 
9780748641512
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
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Personne responsable
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9781892770042: Obscure Locks, Simple Keys - The Annotated Watt

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1892770040 ISBN 13 :  9781892770042
Editeur : Journal of Becket Studies, 2005
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