Samuel Beckett now; critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays. / Edited and with an introd. by Melvin J. Friedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Melvin J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Beckett, Samuel.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1970]

Contents:

Introduction, by M. J. Friedman.

The elusive ego: Beckett's M's, by F. J. Hoffman.

Robbe-Grillet as a critic of Samuel Beckett, by B. Morrissette.

The strange world of Beckett's "grands articulés," by G. Brée.

Black humor: the pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett, by E. Kern.

Beckettian paradox: who is telling the truth? By R. Federman.

Adventures of the first person, by R. Champigny.

Molloy or the quest for meaninglessness: a global interpretation, by D. Hayman.

Interpreting Molloy, by J. Fletcher.

A poet's initiation, by L. E. Harvey.

The laughter of sad Samuel Beckett, by R. Cohn.

Beckett's metaphysics of choiceless awareness, by R. Lamont.

Samuel Beckett: a checklist of criticism, by J. R. Bryer (p. 219-259)

Notes:

With the exception of three essays, an earlier form of this book appeared in French as Configuration critique de Samuel Beckett.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0226263460

OCLC:

115802