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Books by Rhys Tranter
Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of cont... more Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.
Articles and Essays by Rhys Tranter
Samuel Beckett & The Encounter of Philosophy and Literature, ed. Arka Chattopadhyay and James Martell (London: Roman Books, 2013), pp.118-135.
Book Reviews by Rhys Tranter
A review of Joseph Anderton's 2016 monograph, published by Bloomsbury
Interviews by Rhys Tranter
Why did biofiction come into being? How is the biofictional literary symbol different from the tr... more Why did biofiction come into being? How is the biofictional literary symbol different from the traditional literary symbol? What role did postmodernism play in the formation of biofiction? What types of biographical novels are there? I answer many of these questions in this interview with Rhys Tranter, which focuses on my two most recent books The American Biographical Novel and Biographical Fiction: A Reader. At the conclusion of the interview, I discuss the two book projects that I am currently working on, which are about Irish Biofiction and a book of interviews with biographical novelists across the globe. Here is a link to the interview: https://rhystranter.com/2016/12/20/michael-lackey-american-biographical-novel-interview/
Papers by Rhys Tranter
Over the last two decades, our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and work has been expanded ... more Over the last two decades, our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and work has been expanded by an unprecedented number of biographies, memoirs and personal correspondence published for the first time. As a result, academic research has been able to plot a series of connections between the writer’s literary work and the cultural and historical moments that shaped it. Beckett has been hailed as a poet whose work engages like no other with the atrocities of the Second World War. This thesis takes as its starting point an issue that often arises in evaluations of the writer, but which has never before been explored in detail: the theme of trauma. With reference to the work of prominent contemporary theorists, this project elucidates what we mean by the term trauma, and why it can be useful to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s work. Drawing on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, and others, this thesis diagnoses traumatic symptoms and gestures in Beckett’s post-war writ...
Studies in Theatre and Performance
Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2016
Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 2015
Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2016
Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of cont... more Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how Beckett's live theatrical productions are haunted by the rehearsal of traumatic repetition, and asks what his ghostly radio recordings might signal for twentieth-century modernity. Drawing from psychoanalytic and poststructuralist traditions, Beckett's Late Stage explores how the traumatic symptom allows us to rethink the relationship between language, meaning, and identity after 1945.
Samuel Beckett & The Encounter of Philosophy and Literature, ed. Arka Chattopadhyay and James Martell (London: Roman Books, 2013), pp.118-135.
A review of Joseph Anderton's 2016 monograph, published by Bloomsbury
Why did biofiction come into being? How is the biofictional literary symbol different from the tr... more Why did biofiction come into being? How is the biofictional literary symbol different from the traditional literary symbol? What role did postmodernism play in the formation of biofiction? What types of biographical novels are there? I answer many of these questions in this interview with Rhys Tranter, which focuses on my two most recent books The American Biographical Novel and Biographical Fiction: A Reader. At the conclusion of the interview, I discuss the two book projects that I am currently working on, which are about Irish Biofiction and a book of interviews with biographical novelists across the globe. Here is a link to the interview: https://rhystranter.com/2016/12/20/michael-lackey-american-biographical-novel-interview/
Over the last two decades, our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and work has been expanded ... more Over the last two decades, our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and work has been expanded by an unprecedented number of biographies, memoirs and personal correspondence published for the first time. As a result, academic research has been able to plot a series of connections between the writer’s literary work and the cultural and historical moments that shaped it. Beckett has been hailed as a poet whose work engages like no other with the atrocities of the Second World War. This thesis takes as its starting point an issue that often arises in evaluations of the writer, but which has never before been explored in detail: the theme of trauma. With reference to the work of prominent contemporary theorists, this project elucidates what we mean by the term trauma, and why it can be useful to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s work. Drawing on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, and others, this thesis diagnoses traumatic symptoms and gestures in Beckett’s post-war writ...
Studies in Theatre and Performance
Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2016
Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 2015
Studies in Theatre and Performance, 2016