Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2007
A seminar sponsored by the Universities of Oxford and Northampton
Photograph © John Haynes,
1973
Following the publication of James Knowlson's
biography and the release of invaluable notebooks and diaries for scholarly
scrutiny, Beckett Studies is undergoing a revolution. Beckett's major period of
intellectual formation was in the 1920s and 30s, long before he became known as
a French Existentialist after Waiting for
Godot, and even longer before he was discovered by post-structuralist
critics. This seminar will attempt to reassess Beckett's cultural position in
two directions: by examining some of the recently uncovered influences that
shaped his unique writing, and by refracting his image and his work through
some of the authors, thinkers, composers and visual artists he influenced in
turn.
27 April Prof.
John Pilling (University of Reading)
‘Two Deltas and an Enueg:
Beckett's Montale’
4
May Mr
Sean Lawlor (University of Reading)
‘Beckett, MacGreevy and the Stink of Joyce’
11 May Dr
Ulrika Maude (Durham University)
‘“Material of a Strictly Peculiar Order”:
Beckett, Phenomenology and Perception’
Wed Prof. Peter Murphy (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)
16 May ‘Incorporating Joyce in Beckett's Post-Trilogy Works: Some Minor, Major and
Problematical Instances’ (Please note change of day)
18
May Prof.
Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University, USA)
‘“The bubble
on the puddle”: Samuel Beckett's Legacy to the Understanding of Creativity’
25
May Dr Ashley Taggert (IES, Dublin)
‘Paying Lip Service to Silence:
Beckett and Surrealism: Maeterlink and Beckett’
1
June Dr
Sinéad Mooney (National University of Ireland, Galway)
‘“the sear of every metamorphosis”: Beckett and Surrealism’
8
June Prof. Steven Matthews
(Oxford Brookes University)
‘Samuel Beckett, Perception, and Creatureliness’
15
June Dr Rosemary Pountney
(University of Oxford)
‘Some Reflections on Pinter and Stoppard and their Relationship to Beckett’
Seminars commence Fridays at 4:30 p.m.,
the Collier Room, Regent’s Park College,
Pusey Street, Oxford
Seminar organisers: Dr
Matthew Feldman Dr Erik TonningPusey Street, Oxford
Contact details: e-mail: matthew.feldman@northampton.ac.uk erik.tonning@regents.ox.ac.uk
phone: 07968 991 283 (mobile)
(01865) 250 826 (home)
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