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The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations


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Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volume The Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. It is divided into two sections, ‘Foul Papers: Archives and Sources’ and ‘Fair Papers: Theories and Translations’, together with the editor’s Introduction. It contains work by some of the world’s leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Weller and Mary Bryden) and reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the ‘new pragmatism’ within Beckett Studies. Key Features * Gathers 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 Badiou * Includes studies of Beckett’s Italian translations * Brings together in one place archival and source material, high quality original research and theoretically informed analysis

Table of Contents:
S. E. Gontarski, ‘Beckett’s Papers, Foul and Fair’; Foul Papers: Archives and Sources; Francis Doherty, ‘Mahaffy’s Whoroscope’; Chris Ackerley, ‘Beckett’s "Malacoda": or, Dante’s Devil Plays Beethoven’; David Wheatley, ‘Beckett’s Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study’; Mary Bryden, ‘"Pour Finir Encore": A Manuscript Study’; John Pilling, ‘Dates and Difficulties in Beckett’s Whoroscope Notebook’; Mark Nixon ‘"the remains of trace": Intra- and Intertextual Transferences in Beckett’s Mirlitonnades Manuscripts’; Phil Baker, ‘The Stamp of the Father in Molloy’; James Knowlson, ‘A Note on Benozzo Gozzoli’; Fair Papers: Theories and Translations; J. D. O’Hara, ‘From the Lowlands to the Twin Peaks of "Assumption"’; S. E. Gontarski, ‘Refiguring, Revising, and Reprinting The Lost Ones’; Daniela Caselli, ‘Beckett and Leopardi’; Norma Bouchard, ‘Recovering Beckett’s Italian Translations’; Bruno Clément, ‘A Rhetoric of Ill-Saying’ (trans. Thomas Cousineau); Alain Badiou, ‘Beckett’s Generic Writing’ (trans. Alban Urbanas); Justin Beplate, ‘This Little Sound Now in Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work’; Paul Lawley’s essay on ‘Endgame in the Subjunctive’; Shane Weller, ‘"All the Dead Voices": Beckett and the Ethics of Elegy’.

About the Author :
S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780748665709
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 529 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0748665706
  • Publisher Date: 03 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Archives, Theories and Translations
  • Width: 156 mm


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