S.E. Gontarski
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Stanley E. Gontarski (born February 27, 1942) specializes in twentieth-century Irish Studies, in British, U.S., and European Modernism, and in performance theory. He is a leading scholar of the work of
Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
, and is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at
Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st ...
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Works


As editor

* ''Beckett after Beckett'' (ed. with Anthony Uhlmann), University Press of Florida, 2006. * ''The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Life, Works, and Thought'' (with C. J. Ackerly), Faber and Faber, 2006. * ''The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Life, Works, and Thought'' (with C. J. Ackerley), Grove Press, 2004. * ''Beckett in Scena: Interpretazioni Memorabili nel Mondo'' (Drammaturgia 9), a cura di S. E. Gontarski e Annamaria Cascetta (Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2002). * ''The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001'', Grove Press, 2001. nterview with Grove Press author Hubert Selby, Jr., full text.* ''Modernism, Censorship and the Politics of Publishing,'' Hanes Foundation, Rare Book Collection, University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000. * ''The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV: The Shorter Plays'', Grove Press (U. S.) and Faber and Faber (UK) 1999. * '' Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1928-1989'', Grove Press, 1995. he Readers' Subscription featured selection, 1996–7; and New York Times Book Review "New and Noteworthy Paperbacks" * ''The Beckett Studies Reader'', University Presses of Florida, 1993. * ''The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: Endgame'', Grove Press (U. S.) and Faber and Faber (UK) 1993. Notable Books of the Year: 1993," New York Times Book Review* ''On Beckett: Essays and Criticism'', Grove Press, 1986.


As author

* ''The Intent of Undoing in Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Texts'', Indiana UP, 1985. * ''Samuel Beckett: Humanistic Perspectives'', Ohio State University Press, 1983. inalist for the 1983 Barnard Hewitt Award for outstanding research in theater history.* ''Beckett's "Happy Days": A Manuscript Study'', Ohio State University Library Press, 1977.


External links


Florida State University faculty profile
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