Members of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre published a number of journal articles, chapters and books in 2020.<\/p>\n
Books<\/strong><\/p>\n Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes<\/em><\/a>, edited by\u00a0Steven Matthews, Co-Director of The Samuel Beckett Research Centre, and\u00a0Matthew Feldman, is a major new Beckett text that reveals major aspects of Beckett\u2019s philosophical thought and raises larger questions concerning the relation between philosophy and literature in the twentieth century and beyond.<\/p>\n Anna McMullan\u2019s\u00a0Samuel Beckett’s intermedial ecosystems: closed space environments across the stage, prose and media works<\/em><\/a>\u00a0draws on the concept of ecosystems to investigate selected Beckett works across different media which present worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation: rather Beckett\u2019s human figures are trapped in a regulated system in which they have little agency.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Book chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n Jonathan Bignell\u2019s chapter, \u201cRandom dottiness\u201d: Samuel Beckett and the reception of Harold Pinter\u2019s early dramas<\/em><\/a> in Influencing Beckett \/ Beckett Influencing (Rakoczy, Tanaka and Johnson, 2020), analyses the significance of Beckett to the British reception of the playwright Harold Pinter\u2019s early work.<\/p>\n In his chapter, Beckett and television: anachronism as innovation<\/em><\/a> in Samuel Beckett and Technology (Adar, Kiryushina and Nixon, 2020), Jonathan Bignell argues that Beckett\u2019s dramas written for television (from Eh Joe in 1966 to Nacht und Traume in 1983) work as reflexive analyses of television technology\u2019s uneasy position as an \u201cold\u201d and also a \u201cnew\u201d medium.<\/p>\n In\u00a0his chapter, \u2018The air is full of our cries\u2019: staging Godot during apartheid South Africa<\/em><\/a> in Beckett and Politics (Davies and Bailey, 2020), Matthew McFrederick<\/a> offers new readings into this seminal South African production and the neglected politics of Beckett and race on South African and international stages.<\/p>\n Lucy Jeffery<\/a> (Beckett Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellow) has written\u00a0\u2018Words and Music\u00a0<\/em>\u201cor some other trouble\u201d: Vaguening on the Airwaves\u2019 in\u00a0Beckett and Technology <\/em>(Adar, Kiryushina, and Nixon, 2021).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Journal articles<\/strong><\/p>\n Mark Nixon<\/a>, Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, was one of the editors of a special issue of Samuel Beckett Today \/ Aujourd’hui, Beckett and Intermediality \/ Beckett, artiste int\u00e9rmedial<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jonathan Bignell<\/a> analyses tensions between medium specificity and intermediality in Beckett\u2019s first original drama for television, Eh Joe (1966) in Specially for television? Eh Joe, intermediality and Beckett\u2019s drama<\/em><\/a>, and also evaluates the significance of the intermedial migrations that happened to the “Beckett on Film” project in\u00a0When Beckett on Film migrated to television<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n In Samuel Beckett and intermedial performance: passing between<\/em><\/a>, Anna McMullan, Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, analyses two intermedial adaptations of works by Beckett for performance in relation to \u00c1gnes Petho\u2019s definition of intermediality as a border zone or passageway between media, grounded in the \u201cinter-sensuality of perception\u201d.<\/p>\n William Davies<\/a>, Beckett Research Centre Post-doctoral Fellow considers Beckett and his war writing in ‘Crawling in the Flanders mud’: Samuel Beckett, war writing and scatological pacifism<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0exploring the depiction of wounded soldiers in Samuel Beckett\u2019s novel Mercier and Camier and the depiction of the degenerating male form in Samuel Beckett\u2019s post-World War II trilogy of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable) in Samuel Becket’s trilogy and the revolution of the body in Vichy France<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Lucy Jeffery<\/a> discusses music and Beckett with SBRC creative fellow Tim Parkinson in an interview published in the\u00a0Journal of Beckett Studies<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Full publications list<\/strong><\/p>\n Bignell, J.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0Beckett and television: anachronism as innovation.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0In:\u00a0Adar, E.,\u00a0Kiryushina, G.\u00a0and\u00a0Nixon, M.<\/a>\u00a0(eds.) Samuel Beckett and Technology. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. (In Press)<\/p>\n Bignell, J.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0\u201cRandom dottiness\u201d: Samuel Beckett and the reception of Harold Pinter\u2019s early dramas.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0In:\u00a0Rakoczy, A.,\u00a0Hori Tanaka, M.\u00a0and\u00a0Johnson, N.\u00a0(eds.) Influencing Beckett \/ Beckett Influencing. Collection Karoli. L’Harmattan, Budapest & Paris, pp. 61-74. ISBN 9782343219110<\/p>\n Bignell, J.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0Specially for television? Eh Joe, intermediality and Beckett\u2019s drama.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Samuel Beckett Today\/Aujourd\u2019hui, 32 (1). pp. 41-54. ISSN 1875-7405 doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/18757405-03201004<\/a><\/p>\n Bignell, J.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0When Beckett on Film migrated to television.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u041a\u045a\u0438\u0436\u0435\u0432\u043d\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0458\u0430 (Literary History), 51 (169). pp. 97-108. ISSN 0350-6428 doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18485\/kis.2019.51.169.5<\/a><\/p>\n Davies, W.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0‘Crawling in the Flanders mud’: Samuel Beckett, war writing and scatological pacifism.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Journal of War and Culture Studies, 13 (2). pp. 145-162. ISSN 1752-6280 doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17526272.2019.1644273<\/a><\/p>\n Davies, W.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0Samuel Becket’s trilogy and the revolution of the body in Vichy France.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Twentieth-Century Literature, 66 (1). pp. 11-36. ISSN 0041-462X doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/0041462X-8196685<\/a><\/p>\n Jeffery, L.<\/a> (2020)\u00a0An Interview with Tim Parkinson<\/em>.\u00a0Journal of Beckett Studies<\/em><\/a>, 29 (2). pp. 249-260. ISSN 1759-7811 doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3366\/jobs.2020.0314<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Matthews, S.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Feldman, M., eds. (2020)\u00a0Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Oxford University Press, Oxford.<\/p>\n McFrederick, M.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0\u2018The air is full of our cries\u2019: staging Godot during apartheid South Africa.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0In: Beckett and Politics. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 195-211. ISBN 9783030471095 doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-47110-1<\/a><\/p>\n McMullan, A.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0Samuel Beckett and intermedial performance: passing between.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Samuel Beckett Today \/ Aujourd’hui, 32 (1). pp. 71-85. ISSN 0927-3131 doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/18757405-03201006<\/a><\/p>\n McMullan, A.<\/a>\u00a0(2020)\u00a0Samuel Beckett’s intermedial ecosystems: closed space environments across the stage, prose and media works.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)<\/p>\n McTighe, T.,\u00a0Morin, E.\u00a0and\u00a0Nixon, M.<\/a>, eds. (2020)\u00a0Beckett and Intermediality \/ Beckett, artiste int\u00e9rmedial.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Samuel Beckett Today \/ Aujourd’hui, 32 (1). Brill, Leiden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"