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Excerpt: Beckett is keenly interested in ways individuals unsuccesfully atempt to disown their past. His explorations into this reflect his awareness of being a survivor of the Second World War.

ETSU Patchwork Players will perform a staged reading of Other Places – 3 Plays by Harold Pinter in Studio 205 of Campus Center Building at 7:30 p.m. free of charge. The reading is under the direction of Theatre & Dance faculty member Melissa Shafer and advising of Department of Literature & Language Chair Dr. Katherine Weiss, acting as dramaturg.

This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett’s engagement with history. As the first full-length volume to address the historical debate in Beckett studies, Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive provides both ground-breaking analysis of the major works as well as a sustained interrogation of the critical assumptions that underpin Beckett studies more generally. Drawing on a range of archival materials, and situating Beckett in historical context, these essays pose a strong challenge to the prevailing critical consensus that he was a deracinated modernist who cannot be read historically. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1185/thumbnail.jpg

Review of Samuel Beckett’s Plays on Film and Television by Graley Herren.

Review of A Companion to Samuel Beckett edited by S.E. Gontarski.

Review of John Bolin, Beckett and the Modern Novel. Cambridge: University Press, 2013. Hardcover. xii+214. ISBN 978-1107029842. £50.0.

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Since the death of Carson McCullers in 1967, there has been no revival of interest in her work, and there has been little critical study done in regard to it. All of McCullers' stories have Southern settings, and most are set in her native Georgia. She uses folk materials (as do Faulkner, Welty and Warren), but the limitations which these impose are transcended, and the fiction becomes an "examination of universal moral circumstances."1 McCullers does not exploit local color, which, as Robert Penn Warren has noted, is often "incomplete and unphilosophical."2 Rather than treating locale for its own sake, she uses it, as do many other Southern writers, as a means of dramatizing themes which are universal. Previous studies have included those done in regard to the Southern settings of McCullers' novels, her use of musical structure, and the Gothic elements in her fiction. There has been, however, no study of paradox as that skeleton around which the novels are structured. This thesis will focus on some paradoxical elements of the fiction of Carson McCullers; these will be limited to two motifs: the eye and the quest, and two themes: love-hate and community-isolation. 1. Frederick J. Hoffman, The Art of Southern Fiction: A Study of Some Modern Novelists (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967), p. 11. 2. Robert Penn Warren, "Not Local Color," The Virginia Quarterly Review, VIII (January 1932), 154.