| In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts Contributor(s): Ghosh, Ranjan (Editor), Herren, Graley (Contribution by), Byron, Mark S. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1498516467 ISBN-13: 9781498516464 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $54.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 842.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts, Ranjan Ghosh puts together thirteen new essays on Beckett's most popular and widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Chapters are envisaged as dialogues with Godot, keeping in mind the event of waiting and other issues related to this Godot-Waiting phenomenon. The merit of this book lies in exploring this play from thirteen fresh perspectives introducing some important themes that have not been dealt previously. Contributors explore the play in reference to topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva, Derrida, the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in structural reading, and anti-existentialism. Essays ask, can we make claims to read this play outside the "absurd tradition?" Is it an anti-existential play? Can Beckett possibly be "Indianized?" How can the dialectic between "waiting" and "delay" be problematized? If Beckett was up to de-structure conventional modes of drama-writing, what connection could he possibly have with Aristotle and his normative modes? Can the Vladimir-Estragon relationship be critiqued psychoanalytically? Can questions of political commitment be challenged anew, resisting easy propositions to considering it a Resistance play? Can the Godot / Resistance collocation be examined through torture (the series of beatings that structures the play), through relationship (the pseudo-couple), and finally through language (the insistent coupling of violence and meaning)? In Dialogue with Godot offers a refreshingly new and varied approach to Samuel Beckett's most popular play. |
Contributor Bio(s): Margaroni, Maria: - Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (University of Leeds). Her publications include: Julia Kristeva: Live Theory (with John Lechte, Continuum, 2004), Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (with Effie Yiannopoulou, Rodopi, 2006), Intimate Transfers (with Effie Yiannopoulou, special issue of the European Journal of English Studies, 2005) and Violence and the Sacred, special issue of Philosophy Today, 2012. The Care of Thought and the Fate of the Soul: On Julia Kristeva) is due to be published by SUNY Press, 2016. A collection of essays co-edited with Apostolos Lampropoulos and Christos Hadjichristos, Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique, published in 2016 (Lexington Books).Ghosh, Ranjan: - Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal. He is widely published in journals like The Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, parallax, Rethinking History, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, The Comparatist and others. Among his recent books include Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012), Edward Said, the Literary, Social and the Political World (New York: Routledge, 2009), Making Sense of the Secular (New York: Routledge, 2012), Presence: Philosophy, History and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century (Cornell University Press, 2013, with Ethan Kleinberg). To know more about his work one may visit his website: http: //www.ranjanghosh.com |