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The Beckett critical reader : archives, theories and translations / edited by S.E. Gontarski.

LIBRA PR6003.E282 Z55 2012
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Physical Description:
vi, 250 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University press, [2012]
Language Note:
In English; occasional phrases in French and Italian.
Summary:
  • This Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 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 original research and theoretically informed analysis Book jacket.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.
ISBN:
  • 0748665706
  • 9780748665709
OCLC:
794366516
Publisher Number:
99956395908
Online:
The Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development Home Page

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