The New Samuel Beckett Studies

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Combining new approaches and methods of interpretation to an expanding canon that has brought us new letters, drafts and notebooks, this collection aims to present the most accurate and varied map of new Beckett studies.This collection explains developments within Beckett studies and why he has emerged as one of the most iconic writers of the twentieth century. It also proposes a new interpretive framework that explores both the expanded canon, which has doubled the volume of his works in the last ten years, and the new methods used to approach it. This book covers all the most recent approaches to the Beckett study, such as archival research, queer theory, mathematical readings of literature, neuro-scientific approaches, translation studies, and disability studies. These new approaches are shown to be relevant and necessary to provide a renewed understanding of the lasting value of Beckett's works.