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A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy & Critical Theory
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A Piece of Monologue is an independent website that discusses literature, film, philosophy and contemporary issues in critical theory.
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Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: Postgraduate Symposium

Free symposium at St Johns College at the University of Oxford · 12 June An announcement from Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: Were pleased to announce details of a postgraduate symposium due to t...

1 day ago

JoyceWays: Ulysses iPod App

An electronic resource mapping the Dublin of Joyces Ulysses An announcement for JoyceWays, a new application that maps the locations of James Joyces modernist novel Ulysses: Who would have thought of...

1 day ago

Alternative Modernisms: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference

Cardiff University, 16-18 May 2013 About the Conference This international, interdisciplinary conference aims to bring attention to critically neglected modernist texts, movements and forms, as well ...

4 days ago

Documentary: Examined Life (2008)

Astra Taylor approaches a series of high-profile philosophers and thinkers Description: In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of u...

6 days ago

That Other Word: Episode 3

A free online podcast discussing literature and translation An announcement from That Other Word: That Other Word is a podcast run jointly by Daniel Medin (Center for Writers and Translators, Paris) ...

23 may 12

Ethica: Four shorts by Samuel Beckett

Sugarglass Theatre perform four Beckett works · 28 May - 2 June 2012 Ethica Four shorts by Samuel Beckett Play/Come and Go/Catastrophe/What Where Samuel Beckett Theatre 28 May – 2 June 2012 Press Rel...

23 may 12

All Things Considered: Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

[The Loser is] obsessing unflinchingly about the things that have always obsessed me Thomas Bernhard, The Loser Claire Messud reviews Thomas Bernhards novel The Loser in a 2007 edition of NPRs All Th...

22 may 12

Happy Days: Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

23 - 27 August 2012 · Annual festival celebrating Samuel Beckett Screenshot from the Happy Days website About the Festival Happy Days is a new annual festival celebrating the work and influence of No...

19 may 12

Laura Salisbury, Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

Becketts comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representation About the book Samuel Beckett is a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the unspeakable ...

18 may 12

Men Who Played the Boy in Waiting for Godot

Did you ever play Boy in Becketts classic play? If so, wed like to hear from you. Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot, starring John Glover, John Goodman, Cameron Clifford, Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin. ...

18 may 12

Review: Becketts Waiting for Godot / Pinters The Caretaker

Charles McNulty on the erudition of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett Harold Pinters The Caretaker, with Jonathan Pryce, left, and Alan Cox. Photograph: Helen Warner / March 8, 2012 Writing for the Lo...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Ghérasim Luca, Self-Shadowing Prey

A new publication from Contra Mundum Press Ghérasim Luca, Self-Shadowing Prey The following is an announcement from Contra Mundum Press: Self-Shadowing Prey Announcing the first ever English translat...

18 may 12

Francis Bacon: Free e-book

Download a free multimedia e-book on the twentieth century painter Screenshot from the Francis Bacon e-book Screenshot from the Francis Bacon e-book Screenshot from the Francis Bacon e-book Screensho...

12 may 12

National Library of Ireland releases Joyce Archive online

The Irish Times reports on the free online availability of Joyce manuscripts James Joyce Terence Killeen (The Irish Times) reports (thanks to Johann Gregory for the link): The National Library of Ire...

12 may 12

Auster/Tolstoy: Winter Journal

James Meader senses affinities between Auster memoir and Tolstoys work Paul Auster, Winter Journal The Picador Book Room takes a look at the galleys of Paul Austers new memoir, Winter Journal, and co...

12 may 12

Ludwig Wittgenstein on Science and Industry

An excerpt from Culture and Value Ludwig Wittgenstein An excerpt from Ludwig Wittgensteins Culture and Value, written, partly, in response to the atomic bomb: Is isnt absurd, e.g., to believe that th...

04 may 12

Ludwig Wittgensteins Lifestyle

Wittgensteins period as a schoolteacher in Europe In an extract from Ray Monks biography, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Frank Ramsey describes Ludwig Wittgensteins lifestyle in Trattenbach...

04 may 12

Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky? The Experts Decide

8 experts seek to answer the age-old question Leo Tolstoy (left) and Fyodor Dostoyevsky (right) Theres something slightly ridiculous about literary polls. (Or any form of artistic poll, for that matt...

04 may 12

Syria and Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot

BBC interview with Abu Mohammed suggests Becketts play is a source of hope Ian McKellen (Estragon) and Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) in Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot Ian Pannell (BBC) talks to Abu M...

04 may 12

Samuel Beckett Series 2: Speech, Gaze and the Body

Announcing the second volume of the series Im happy to announce the French publication of the second volume of the Samuel Beckett Series, which includes a number of essays on Speech, Gaze and the Bod...

04 may 12

On Philosophical Novels

From Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky to Sartre and Bernhard Leo Tolstoy reading, pencil portrait by Ilya Repin (1891) Jennie Erdal writes a survey of the philosophical novel in the Financial Times, and Geoff...

24 apr 12

That Other Word: Episode 2

A free online podcast discussing literature and translation An announcement from That Other Word: That Other Word is a podcast run jointly by Daniel Medin (Center for Writers and Translators, Paris) ...

21 apr 12

Black Clock 15: Public Reading

Black Clock 15 celebrates at the Mandrake Bar in Los Angeles To celebrate the fifteenth issue of Black Clock, a journal published by the California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) MFA Writing Progra...

21 apr 12

David Foster Wallace Symposium

Held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin From the Harry Ransom Center (with thanks to Danish Arshad): On April 5, 2012, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at...

20 apr 12

Reading Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard, Gathering Evidence including My Prizes What is the secret behind Bernhards new popularity? With the new Vintage reissue of Thomas Bernhards autobiographical pieces, Gathering Evidenc...

20 apr 12

John Banville on Samuel Becketts Letters

A look at Becketts artistic development in post-war Europe Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti in Giacometti’s studio, Paris, 1961. Photo: Georges Pierre/Sygma/Corbis John Banville reviews the seco...

19 apr 12

Thomas Bernhard, My Prizes (Notting Hill Editions)

Frances Hill talks about a new edition of Bernhards autobiographical work Notting Hill Editions publishes an English translation of Thomas Bernhards My Prizes (via Stephen Mitchelmore). Also at A Pie...

19 apr 12

Will Self on the influence of J. G. Ballard

Self relates the importance of Ballards writing to his own work and the wider culture From Will-Self.com: Will Self describes the importance of J.G. Ballard’s writing in this 7 minute video from The ...

17 apr 12

Judith Butler: How to Read Kafka

The European Graduate School broadcasts online seminars with Judith Butler Description from The European Graduate School: Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about how to read Kafka. In th...

17 apr 12

Alfred Hitchcock on Happiness

Excerpt from a television interview with the British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock gives his definition of happiness in a television interview (link via 3:AM Magazine and Dangerous Minds). Also at A Pie...

16 apr 12

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