{"id":2681,"date":"2018-05-09T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/the-forum\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2018-05-09T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:40:23","slug":"beckett-creative-fellowship-eimear-mcbride-blog-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2018\/05\/09\/beckett-creative-fellowship-eimear-mcbride-blog-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckett Creative Fellowship \u2013 Eimear McBride blog Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/01\/EimearMcBride-Beckett-Fellow-story.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1956\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/01\/EimearMcBride-Beckett-Fellow-story-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month the moment I\u2019d been putting off finally arrived and it was time to write. How is it that the blank page upon which something influenced by time spent in Beckett\u2019s archive is to be written, seems even more horrifyingly blank than usual? <!--more-->At any rate, after some suffering, much cursing and endless deleting, three short pieces emerged: two performance and one prose\/performance. Not plays, definitely not plays, but also not stories, or not in the usual sense. I can\u2019t pin them to a single work of Beckett\u2019s, but an influential contender is certainly, almost inevitably, <em>Not I<\/em>. However, only in so far as this is where Beckett cleared space for the female voice, unhindered by psychology, sociology, physicality or even history to surge through. So, in line with my evolving practice of appropriating what I admire in other writers\u2019 work &#8211; Sarah Kane\u2019s unapologetic confrontationalism for <em>A Girl is a Half-formed Thing<\/em>, Dostoyevsky\u2019s epic, tragic monologues for <em>The Lesser Bohemians<\/em> &#8211; this is what I stole from Beckett; the stripping away of all justification to reveal a deeper truth. I hope the pieces will succeed on their own terms, of course but if not, we all know what the man himself has to say about that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Multi-award-winning author Eimear McBride is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR746482.aspx\">Reading\u2019s first Beckett Creative Fellow<\/a>, and has been given unique access to our internationally important\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/special-collections\/collections\/sc-beckett.aspx\">Beckett Archive<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the largest collection of publicly accessible Samuel Beckett materials in the world.\u00a0This is\u00a0her latest monthly journal entry about her\u00a0experiences of working with the materials.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month the moment I\u2019d been putting off finally arrived and it was time to write. How is it that the blank page upon which something influenced by time spent&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#45;&#98;&#108;&#111;&#103;&#47;&#50;&#48;&#49;&#56;&#47;&#48;&#53;&#47;&#48;&#57;&#47;&#98;&#101;&#99;&#107;&#101;&#116;&#116;&#45;&#99;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#116;&#105;&#118;&#101;&#45;&#102;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#111;&#119;&#115;&#104;&#105;&#112;&#45;&#101;&#105;&#109;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#45;&#109;&#99;&#98;&#114;&#105;&#100;&#101;&#45;&#98;&#108;&#111;&#103;&#45;&#112;&#97;&#114;&#116;&#45;&#55;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[106,108,302,796,910],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage-creativity","tag-beckett-archive","tag-beckett-research-centre","tag-eimear-mcbride","tag-samuel-beckett","tag-university-of-reading"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beckett Creative Fellowship \u2013 Eimear McBride blog Part 7 - Connecting Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2018\/05\/09\/beckett-creative-fellowship-eimear-mcbride-blog-part-7\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beckett Creative Fellowship \u2013 Eimear McBride blog Part 7 - Connecting Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last month the moment I\u2019d been putting off finally arrived and it was time to write. 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