| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Beckett's papers, foul and fair / S.E. Gontarski -- Mahaffy's Whoroscope / Francis Doherty -- Beckett's 'Malacoda' : or Dante's Devil plays Beethoven / C.J. Ackerley -- Beckett's Mirlitonnades : a manuscript study / David Wheatley -- Pour finir encore : a manuscript study / Mary Bryden -- Dates and difficulties in Beckett's Whoroscope notebook / John Pilling -- 'the remains of trace' : intra- and intertextual transferences in Beckett's Mirlitonnades manuscripts / Mark Nixon -- The stamp of the father in Molloy / Phil Baker -- A note on Benozzo Gozzoli / James Knowlson -- From the lowlands to the twin peaks of 'Assumption' / J.D. O'Hara -- Refiguring, revising and reprinting The lost ones / S.E. Gontarski -- Beckett and Leopardi / Daniela Caselli -- Recovering Beckett's Italian translations / Norma Bouchard -- A rhetoric of ill-saying / Bruno Clément, trans. Thomas Cousineau -- Beckett's generic writing / Alain Badiou, trans. Alban Urbanas -- This little sound now in Beckett's From an abandoned work / Justin Beplate -- Endgame in the subjunctive / Paul Lawley -- 'All the dead voices' : Beckett and the ethics of elegy / Shane Weller |
| Summary |
Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volumeThe Reader makes readily available for the first time 18 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. Divided into two sections, Sources and Archives and Theories and Translations, and containing work by some of the world's leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Wellar and Mary Bryden) the volume reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the 'new pragmatism' within Beckett Studies.Key FeaturesGathers 5 strongly textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett's texts Includes 2 theoretically informed essays by major French philosophers, Bruno Clément and Alain BadiouOffers a distinctive European emphasis, including studies of Beckett's Italian translationsBrings together in one place high-quality, original research from immediately recognizable names in the field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English; occasional phrases in French and Italian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 gnd |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. gnd (DE-601)079312128 |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gontarski, S. E., editor
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| LC no. |
2012551983 |
| ISBN |
9781474468558 |
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1474468551 |
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9780748665716 |
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0748665714 |
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9780748665723 |
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0748665722 |
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9780748665730 |
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0748665730 |
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