Samuel Beckett: Afterlives

(5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module explores Beckett's creative legacy and continuing relevance for several contemporary writers and an artist whose work is motivated by similar thematic, formal or conceptual preoccupations as Beckett's writing. The contemporary figures under study are the writers Claire-Louise Bennett, Anna Burns, Brian Dillon, Enda Walsh, and the artist Brian O'Doherty. If access to Trinity's Manuscripts Library is possible, we will have a workshop with Beckett's manuscripts. If not, we will explore the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, accessible online through the Library. The outline below sets out the week-to-week structure of the module if the manuscript workshop is not possible. If the workshop is possible, the final two lectures will be covered in a single week.