Author: Daniel Koczy File Type: pdf This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Becketts theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuzes philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance the possibility of theatrical automation and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Becketts later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuzes conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence. **Review Not only does Daniel Koczy remain true to the radical importance of alterity and the unthought in Deleuzes philosophy, he also takes them seriously by producing a dazzling new range of concepts from the encounter of Deleuze and Becketts work.Beckett, Deleuze and Performanceis not only a tour de force of scholarship, but a courageous attempt to create and affirm the new itself. (Stephen Zepke,Vienna, Austria) Koczy takes seriously the aporias at the heart of these works. Just as Deleuze contends that art leads to thought rather than telling us what to think, Koczy leads us, with careful attention and unerring erudition, into the heart of Becketts failures. (Professor Anthony Uhlmann, Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia) From the Back Cover This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Becketts theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuzes philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance the possibility of theatrical automation and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Becketts later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuzes conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence.

Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly File Type: pdf In the last quarter of the fourteenth century, the complete Old and New Testaments were translated from Latin into English, first very literally, and then revised into a more fluent, less Latinate style. This outstanding achievement, the Middle English Bible, is known by most modern scholars as the Wycliffite or Lollard Bible, attributing it to followers of the heretic John Wyclif. Prevailing scholarly opinion also holds that this Bible was condemned and banned by the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Arundel, at the Council of Oxford in 1407, even though it continued to be copied at a great rate. Indeed, Henry Ansgar Kelly notes, it was the most popular work in English of the Middle Ages and was frequently consulted for help in understanding Scripture readings at Sunday Mass. In The Middle English Bible A Reassessment, Kelly finds the bases for the Wycliffite origins of the Middle English Bible to be mostly illusory. While there were attempts by the Lollard movement to appropriate or coopt it after the fact, the translation project, which appears to have originated at the University of Oxford, was wholly orthodox. Further, the 1407 Council did not ban translations but instead mandated that they be approved by a local bishop. It was only in the early sixteenth century, in the years before the Reformation, that English translations of the Bible would be banned. **