Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment

David Addyman, Matthew Feldman, Erik Tonning, Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst, Catherine Laws, Stefano Rosignoli, John Pilling, Elsa Baroghel, Paul Stewart, Melissa Chia, Steven Matthews, and Natalie Leeder

ISBN 10: 1349951307 / ISBN 13: 9781349951307

Edité par Palgrave, 2017

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2017 Palgrave hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

Contents:

1. Beckett's 'Non-canonical' Radio Productions, 1957-1989 - Matthew Feldman,
2. The BBC and Beckett's Non-radiogenic Plays in the 1950s - Dirk Van Hulle,
3. Mediating Modernism: The Third Programme, Samuel Beckett, and Mass Communication - Erik Tonning,
4. The BBC as 'Commissioner' of Beckett's Radio Plays - Pim Verhulst,
5. Imagining Radio Sound: Interference and Collaboration in the BBC Radio Production of Beckett's All That Fall - Catherine Laws,
6. Author, Work and Trade: The Sociology of Samuel Beckett's Texts in the Years of the Broadcasts for BBC Radio (1957-89). Copyright and Moral Rights - Stefano Rosignoli,
7. Changing My Tune: Beckett and the BBC Third Programme (1957-1960) - John Pilling,
8. 'My God to Have to Murmur That': Comment C'est/How It Is and the Issue of Performance - Elsa Baroghel,
9. Fitting the Prose to Radio: The Case of Lessness - Paul Stewart,
10. 'My comforts! Be friends!': Words, Music and Beckett's Poetry on the Third - Melissa Chia,
11. Meditations and Monologues: Beckett's Mid-Late Prose on the Radio - Steven Matthews,
12. 'None But the Simplest Words': Beckett's Listeners - Natalie Leeder.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio: A Reassessment
• Éditeur: Palgrave
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1349951307
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781349951307
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett's pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett's work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett's radio plays and various "adaptations" (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, "late modernism," and post-war British culture more broadly.

À propos de l'auteur

David Addyman is Peder Sather Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has published a number of articles and chapters on Beckett.

Matthew Feldman is Professor in the Modern History of Ideas at Teesside University, UK. He has published widely on Beckett, including Beckett's Books and the collection of essays Falsifying Beckett.

Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. His publications include Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity.