Beckett, Joyce and the art of the negative / edited by Colleen Jaurretche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaurretche, Colleen.

Series:

European Joyce studies ; 16.

European Joyce studies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Joyce, James, 1927---Criticism and interpretation.

Joyce, James.

Joyce, James, 1927-.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Negativism in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

246 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Contents:

Introduction / Colleen Jaurretche

Joyce's aesthetic of the double negative and his encounters with Homer's Odyssey / Keri Elizabeth Ames

"Nichtsnichtsundnichts": Beckett's and Joyce's transtextual undoings / Dirk Van Hulle

The unnamable: degenerative dialogue / Russell Kilbourn

Mingled flesh / Ulrika Maude

Beckett's purgatories / John L. Murphy

The uncanny in Beckett / Lois Oppenheim

Death sentences: silence, colonial memory and the voice of the dead in Dubliners / Nels Pearson

Something for nothing: Beckett's Dream of fair to middling women / John Pilling

Joyce's negative esthetics / Jean-Michel Rabaté

The Joyce of impossibilities / Fritz Senn

"Wanting in inanity": negativity, language and "God" in Beckett / Asja Szafraniec

From ideology of loss to aesthetics of absence: the endgame in Beckett's The lost ones / Yuan Yuan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9042016175

OCLC:

61766627