Beckett and Media

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intermediality
media
media aesthetics
media history
media theory
Samuel Beckett
technology
telecommunication
television

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  • ISBN 9781526145833
  • Weight: 526g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Beckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Beckett and media draws on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such, the book engages with Beckett as a media artist and examines the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Balazs Rapcsak is a doctoral candidate in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Basel
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading
Philipp Schweighauser is Professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel