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Dr. Samuel John Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the 1989-1993 science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott Bakula. [1]Initially, the audience knows very little about Beckett, much as he knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the "Swiss cheese effect"—a side effect from the time travel (an effective trope to allow the writers to ...
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish-born writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense .
Dr. Sam Beckett, desperate to prove his time travel theory before his top secret Project Quantum Leap (PQL) runs out of funds, leaps before the kinks are worked out of the machine. He ends up leaping into Tom Stratton (Layne Beamer), a pilot of the experimental Bell X-2 aircraft, trying to act as Tom while dealing with his own "Swiss cheese ...
Gibson has published widely on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, literary theory, and philosophy - particularly the work of Alain Badiou.His publications include Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' (Oxford University Press, 2002), Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency (Oxford University Press, 2006), Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason ...
Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series, created by Donald P. Bellisario, that aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who, believing he has invented a way to travel through time, voluntarily subjects himself to an experiment that he believes will prove the validity of his ...
Come and Go is a short play (described as a "dramaticule" on its title page) by Samuel Beckett.It was written in English in January 1965 and first performed (in German) at the Schillertheater, Berlin on 14 January 1966.
Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.It is about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents, and his servile companion in an abandoned house in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, who await an unspecified "end".
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, having published widely on the subject, and is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University.