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Description of  Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Italian Negotiations (Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures, 1)

1839989661 rar Becketts dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000 Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014 Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009 Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019 Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Becketts relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one sideand on Italian artists response to Becketts oeuvre on the otheris still missing. The volume offers an original examination of Becketts presence on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an Italian artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns. Read more