E Gontarski
Biographic Data
| ID | 783334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Gontarski |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gontarski |
| SIGNATURE | GONTARSKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2899-4209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Surrealism Re-Viewed: L’Esprit Surréaliste
Surrealism persistently resisted its own historicization, defining itself not as a literary or artistic movement but as an activity of the mind aimed at total liberation. This essay re-examines surrealism’s internal contradictions: its rejection of literature alongside its dependence on literary institutions; its commitment to psychic freedom alongside political orthodoxy; and its hostility to authorship alongside the production of canonical work…
Disjecta membra: Em torno dos escritos críticos de Samuel Beckett
This essay examines the role of the various essays collected by Ruby Cohn in Disjecta ("Dante ... Bruno ... Vico ... Joyce", in particular) and of Proust (1931) in the young Beckett's aesthetic project and their effects on mature Beckettian production
A Cabinet of Curiosities: Bad Godots and Lucky’s Brain Science
Um dos maiores especialistas em Samuel Beckett, professor Stanley Gontarski, da Florida State University, discute as relações entre arte e ciência a partir dos experimentos dramáticos de Beckett, especialmente Esperando Godot
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to his death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his …
A Wilder Joyce: Influence, Borrowing, Appropriation, Theft
This article re-examines the unintended consequences of American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder's lifelong passion for the work of James Joyce, as Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, while in the midst of 'unriddling' Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake. Subsequently, accusations of plagiarism arose from two major Joyce scholars, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson, wh…
Weaponised Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the ‘Limits of Control’ from Burroughs to Deleuze
American outlier writer William S. Burroughs was a creative force – an homme de lettres in his own right, yes, but as a cultural theorist as well, particularly his anticipation of what we now regularly call ‘a society of control’ or ‘a surveillance culture’, and, moreover, as a textual embodiment as well. That is, Burroughs was as much a media theorist and performance artist as he was a traditional literary figure, what we generally call a writer…
Flann O’Brien and modernism
Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism
Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline--philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory, religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits Foucault's insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by the dis…
Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze
Beckett em sua época / Beckett em nossa época
Tradução: Cláudia Soares Cruz
Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations. Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as Proust, Ka…
Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze
‘Creative Involution’ posits something of a philosophical genealogy, a line of flight that has neither need for nor interest in the periodisation of Modernism, a line of which Beckett (even reluctantly) is part. Murphy, among others, is deterritorialised as much as Beckett's landscapes are, and so he/they become a ‘complexification’ of being that manifests itself in Beckett not as represented, representative or a representation, since so much of …
Critique of Beckett Criticism: A Guide to Research in English, French, and German
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is an important figure in 20th century literary history: his plays, such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame, have acquired a world-wide reputation, and his novels have proved important touchstones for the critical debates in contemporary literary theory. Born in Dublin, Beckett spent most of his writing life in France and wrote equally well in French and English; his German was also fluent, allowing him to direct his own …
The Intent of Undoing in Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Texts
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The Intent of Undoing in Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Texts
Critique of Beckett Criticism: A Guide to Research in English, French, and German
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is an important figure in 20th century literary history: his plays, such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame, have acquired a world-wide reputation, and his novels have proved important touchstones for the critical debates in contemporary literary theory. Born in Dublin, Beckett spent most of his writing life in France and wrote equally well in French and English; his German was also fluent, allowing him to direct his own …
Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze
‘Creative Involution’ posits something of a philosophical genealogy, a line of flight that has neither need for nor interest in the periodisation of Modernism, a line of which Beckett (even reluctantly) is part. Murphy, among others, is deterritorialised as much as Beckett's landscapes are, and so he/they become a ‘complexification’ of being that manifests itself in Beckett not as represented, representative or a representation, since so much of …
Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations. Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as Proust, Ka…
Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze
Beckett em sua época / Beckett em nossa época
Tradução: Cláudia Soares Cruz
Flann O’Brien and modernism
Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism
Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline--philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory, religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits Foucault's insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by the dis…
Weaponised Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the ‘Limits of Control’ from Burroughs to Deleuze
American outlier writer William S. Burroughs was a creative force – an homme de lettres in his own right, yes, but as a cultural theorist as well, particularly his anticipation of what we now regularly call ‘a society of control’ or ‘a surveillance culture’, and, moreover, as a textual embodiment as well. That is, Burroughs was as much a media theorist and performance artist as he was a traditional literary figure, what we generally call a writer…
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to his death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his …
A Wilder Joyce: Influence, Borrowing, Appropriation, Theft
This article re-examines the unintended consequences of American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder's lifelong passion for the work of James Joyce, as Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, while in the midst of 'unriddling' Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake. Subsequently, accusations of plagiarism arose from two major Joyce scholars, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson, wh…
A Cabinet of Curiosities: Bad Godots and Lucky’s Brain Science
Um dos maiores especialistas em Samuel Beckett, professor Stanley Gontarski, da Florida State University, discute as relações entre arte e ciência a partir dos experimentos dramáticos de Beckett, especialmente Esperando Godot
Disjecta membra: Em torno dos escritos críticos de Samuel Beckett
This essay examines the role of the various essays collected by Ruby Cohn in Disjecta ("Dante ... Bruno ... Vico ... Joyce", in particular) and of Proust (1931) in the young Beckett's aesthetic project and their effects on mature Beckettian production
Surrealism Re-Viewed: L’Esprit Surréaliste
Surrealism persistently resisted its own historicization, defining itself not as a literary or artistic movement but as an activity of the mind aimed at total liberation. This essay re-examines surrealism’s internal contradictions: its rejection of literature alongside its dependence on literary institutions; its commitment to psychic freedom alongside political orthodoxy; and its hostility to authorship alongside the production of canonical work…
Art (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Samuel Beckett and Modernism (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)