The Beckett Critical ReaderArchives, Theories and Translations
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About this book
Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volume
- 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
- Offers a distinctive European emphasis, including studies of Beckett’s Italian translations
- Brings together in one place high-quality, original research from immediately recognizable names in the field
The 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.
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’.