Samuel Beckett and Modernism

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• MUHİTTİN ATAMAN

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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot which is a renowned play written after the World War II primarily focuses on its postwar-period characters. The play is categorized into "Theatre of the Absurd", and several studies were conducted on the post-war period and its impressions in the play. Besides, it called forth many s…

• İSMET TOKSÖZ

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• İBRAHİM GÜLTEKİN

This article is a comparative study of Waiting for Godot (1948) by Samuel Beckett and Clinton Godson (1970) by Leyla Erbil. The first one is an absurd play; the second one is a short absurd story that the traditional forms in modern literature were rejected. In this study focused on the concepts absurdity and meaningl…

• ELMAS ŞAHİN

This article aims to argue that Zinnie Harris’s This Restless House, which is a rewriting of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, is an attempt to give voice to Clytemnestra’s and Electra’s disregarded wounds, claiming that overlooked and/or suppressed traumas demand to be communicated on stage, seeking justice and solace. The ac…

• ÖZLEM KARADAĞ

Bu yazıda Johan Huizinga’nın oyun kavramı temel alınarak absürd tiyatro metinlerindeki oyun olgusu incelenecektir. Bunun için oyun kavramı ve absürd tiyatrodaki yeri kabaca özetlendikten sonra model olarak alınan iki oyun Samuel Beckett’in Oyun Sonu ve Jean Genet’in Balkon adlı oyun metinleri oyun kavramı üzerinden de…

• BANU ÇAKMAK DUMAN

This study aims to examine Samuel Beckett’s Endgame as an absurdist play considering certain aspects and characteristics of this kind of drama such as silence, pause, repetitions, no story or plot, no recognizable or definable decor, unconventional dialogue and interest in global and universal problems rather than con…

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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1954) is a parody of the world following World War II. The play exemplifies the spirit of the age by using defamiliarization as a textual strategy by means of which the characters utilize epistemic modals leading their conversational exchanges to never-ending voidness and uncertaint…

• HATİCE SEZGİ SARAÇ DURGUN

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1954) is a parody of the world following World War II. The play exemplifies the spirit of the age by using defamiliarization as a textual strategy by means of which the characters utilize epistemic modals leading their conversational exchanges to never-ending voidness and uncertaint…

• MAHMUT YASİN DEMİR

This article examines the interaction between the familiar and the eerie, as theorized by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in his essay “The Uncanny” (1919), and to what extent such an interaction may have been represented in the barren and post-apocalyptic setting of Samuel Beckett’s (1906-1989) Endgame (1957). Freud’s conc…

• MEHMET AKİF BALKAYA