This is the first book to analyze Becketts use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Becketts complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process.
This is the first monograph to analyse Becketts use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Becketts complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process.
Investigating specific instances where Becketts writing adopts musical or visual structures, Lucy Jeffery identifies instances of Becketts transdisciplinarity and considers how this approach to writing facilitates ways of expressing familiar Beckettian themes of abstraction, ambiguity, longing, and endlessness. With case studies spanning forty years, she evaluates Becketts stylistic shifts in relation to the cultural context, particularly the technological advancements and artistic movements, during which they were written.
With new examples from Becketts notebooks, critical essays, and letters, Transdisciplinary Beckett evidences how the drastic changes that took place in the visual arts and in musical composition influenced Beckett and, in turn, were influenced by him. Transdisciplinary Beckett situates Beckett as a key figure not just in the literary marketplace but also in the fields of music, art, and broadcasting.
