Creative Involution - (Other Becketts) by S E Gontarski (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><em> </em><em>Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze</em> focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20<sup>th</sup> and now 21<sup>st</sup> centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>An original philosophical approach to one of the 20<sup>th</sup> century's most important literary figures</p> <p></p><i> <p>Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze</i> focuses on a force, on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20<sup>th</sup> and now 21<sup>st</sup> centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. It explores how the work of Samuel Beckett intersects with such preoccupations of time as a double headed monster, of memory and multiplicity, of being and becoming that continue in an involutionary turn through the work of Gilles Deleuze.</p> <p> </p><b> <p>Key Features: </p> <ul> <ul></b> <p> <li>Deploys new critical approaches (e.g., a return to Bergson and Bergsonism) </li> <p></p> <p> <li>Addresses underexplored works in the Beckett canon </li> <p></p> <p> <li>Presents new critiques of representation and Beckett's relationship to philosophy </li> <p></p> <p> <li>Attentive to critical thinking around affect theory and/in literature.</li> <p></p></ul></ul> <p></p> <p>S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University where he edited the <i>Journal of Beckett Studies</i> from 1992-2008. He currently serves as Co-Editor for the <i>Journal</i>. Among his recent books are: <i>The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories, and Translations</i> (2012) and<i> The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts</i> (2014), both from Edinburgh University Press, and a second edition of <i>On Beckett: Essays and Criticism</i> from Anthem Press (2012).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>*AUTHOR-APPROVED* 'A book on Beckett and Bergson is long overdue. Creative Involution offers a new and exciting angle that is of crucial importance to the understanding of the author's work. This groundbreaking monograph is a notable contribution to Beckett studies.' Ulrika Maude, University of Bristol An original philosophical approach to one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures That Modernism is inherently transgressive, amorphous, protean - that it is a 'Breaking Things Open, Breaking Words Open', as Gilles Deleuze suggests - is one of the tenets of this study. Modernism can be said to blur distinctions radically, between past and present, between interior and exterior, between being and becoming, an inward turn that we call 'involution'. Creative Involution uncovers new ways of understanding this philosophical trajectory, one that not only had a profound impact on philosophy and critical theory, but on both cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular. The principal line followed through this study begins with Henri Bergson's rethinking of time, memory and the ancillary issues of perception and consciousness that revolutionised philosophical, artistic and performance theory early in the twentieth century. It explores how the work of Samuel Beckett shares Bergson's obsessions, with time as a 'double headed monster', with memory and multiplicity, with being and becoming - preoccupations that continue to reverberate through the work of Gilles Deleuze. Key Features - Deploys new critical approaches (a return to Bergson and Bergsonism, in particular) - Addresses underexplored works in the Beckett canon - Presents new critiques of representation and of Beckett's relationship to philosophy - Attentive to critical thinking around affect theory and/in literature S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University and a leading scholar of Modernism and the work of Samuel Beckett. Cover image: 730.4 Samuel Beckett, Paris, May 1961 by Michael Peto (c) University of Dundee, The Peto Collection Cover design: Stuart Dalziel [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com ISBN [please add within the barcode box, at the top] 978-0-7486-9732-8 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, Ph.D., Ohio State (1974) and specializes in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in British, U.S., and European Modernism, and in performance theory. He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, has twice been awarded Fulbright Professorships, has been Guest Editor of the following: American Book Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Modern Fiction Studies and most recently Drammaturgia. He is also General Editor of three book series: 1) Crosscurrents: Comparative Studies in European Literature and Philosophy with the University Press of Florida and 2) Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance with Anthem Press, London; and 3) (with Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison) Understanding Philosophy / Understanding Modernism with Bloomsbury. He edited the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1989-2008, and currently serves as Co-Editor with its publication by Edinburgh University Press.<p>
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