In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts

Ranjan Ghosh, Samuel Beckett, Eyal Amiran, Wanda Balzano, Stephen Barker, Mark S. Byron, Mary Catanzaro, Tom Cousineau, Graley Herren, Art Horowitz, Maria Margaroni, Paul Sheehan, Shane Weller

ISBN 10: 0739177397 / ISBN 13: 9780739177396

Published by Lexington Books, 2013

About this Item

A excellent copy of this text discussing Samuel Becket's influential existential drama "Waiting for Godot." 236 pgs bound in pictorial boards, issued with no dust jacket. Binding is solid and sturdy. Interior is crisp, clean, and free of marks. Front cover is bumped near the spine, and there is very minor wear at the bottom corners. Overall, this copy is clean and in great shape.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1725820624902

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739177397
• ISBN 13: 9780739177396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts, Ranjan Ghosh puts together thirteen new essays on Beckett’s most popular and widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Chapters are envisaged as dialogues with Godot, keeping in mind the event of waiting and other issues related to this Godot-Waiting phenomenon. The merit of this book lies in exploring this play from thirteen fresh perspectives introducing some important themes that have not been dealt previously. Contributors explore the play in reference to topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva, Derrida, the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in structural reading, and anti-existentialism. Essays ask, can we make claims to read this play outside the “absurd tradition?” Is it an anti-existential play? Can Beckett possibly be “Indianized?” How can the dialectic between “waiting” and “delay” be problematized? If Beckett was up to de-structure conventional modes of drama-writing, what connection could he possibly have with Aristotle and his normative modes? Can the Vladimir-Estragon relationship be critiqued psychoanalytically? Can questions of political commitment be challenged anew, resisting easy propositions to considering it a Resistance play? Can the Godot / Resistance collocation be examined through torture (the series of beatings that structures the play), through relationship (the pseudo-couple), and finally through language (the insistent coupling of violence and meaning)? In Dialogue with Godot offers a refreshingly new and varied approach to Samuel Beckett’s most popular play.

About the Authors

Graley Herren is Professor and Chair of English at Xavier University, USA. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He serves on the executive board for the Samuel Beckett Society and edits the Society's newsletter, The Beckett Circle.

Maria Margaroni lectures at the University of Cyprus.