Stan 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 writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...
, having published widely on the subject, and is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at
Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...
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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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