{"product_id":"9781474250252","title":"Samuel Beckett and The Bible","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Beckett and The Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Iain Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e to such later novels as \u003ci\u003eIll Seen, Ill Said\u003c\/i\u003e, the work of Samuel Beckett is filled with Biblical references. \u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett and the Bible \u003c\/i\u003ere-appraises the relationships between Beckett's work and the Bible, exploring both as objects of history, matter and memory. Iain Bailey ranges across the Beckett oeuvre to examine how the Bible has come to be regarded as a book of unique significance in his work, offering innovative readings of intertextuality and influence in both published and archival writings. Beckett's Bibles, the book demonstrates, are thoroughly material, as significant for their involvement in histories of education, the family, common knowledge and canon-formation as for what they have to say about God, hope and salvation. The book explores Beckett's uneasy forms of memory, materiality, language and history to assess how far and in what ways the Bible matters in his work, and why Beckett's voice 'harps, but no worse than Holy Writ.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“With extraordinary acumen, precision and eloquence, Iain Bailey examines how Beckett interrogates the 'terrible materiality of the word surface' and what it means for parts of this bilingual interrogation to count as biblical. Bailey's brilliant book on Beckett and the Bible is a sophisticated plea for an approach to intertextuality that does not limit itself to phrase-hunting, as it were, but that consists of a subtle negotiation between texts and contexts, taking full account of ideological fluctuations and historical contingencies.” —\u003ci\u003eDirk Van Hulle, Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781474250252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40634022297806,"sku":"9781474250252","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_2c139f5c-2509-4010-8dd2-dcc142d51d20.jpg?v=1638930373","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781474250252","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}