Stuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.
by Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of the human body across Samuel Beckett’s work. Such attention to the body and the varied forms it takes—often integrated with…
Professor S. E. Gontarski discusses his book Creative Involution and the series it is published in, Other Becketts, with Jacek Gutorow.
“What’s wrong with that bed, Joe?” — Samuel Beckett, Eh Joe (1965) There is something conspicuously odd about many of the everyday objects depicted in Samuel Beckett’s work. Items that are typically associated with the mundane, that usually sink into…
An Italian Renaissance polymath, most known for his notebooks and paintings, Leonardo Da Vinci is still widely considered an enigma. His birthday was today, April 15th. A recent article in Journal of Beckett Studies (Volume 22.2) wonders how much Beckett’s…