Beckett's later fiction and drama : texts for company
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Beckett's later fiction and drama : texts for company
Macmillan, 1987
Available at 16 libraries
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Includes index
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Dedicated to Samuel Beckett in honour of his eightieth birthday, the thirteen essays here focus on Beckett's later fiction and drama - his fiction since How It Is (1961) and his drama since Endgame (1957). Published here for the first time, the essays are characterised by originality of material and freshness of viewpoint. They provide help for the reader who is drawn to the recent work of one of the twentieth century's most important authors, but who feels he needs some help in coming to terms with it. As testimony to Beckett's international reputation, the contributors are drawn from various parts of the English-speaking world, and include many of the leading Beckett scholars of the day.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- M.J.Friedman - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - 'Out of the Dark': Beckett's Texts for Radio
- R.Wilcher - Past Into Future: Krapp's Last Tape to Breath
- K.Worth - Towards the Zero of Language
- M.Esslin - The Self Contained: Beckett's Fiction in the 1960s
- R.Rabinovitz - Still to Worstward Ho: Beckett's Prose Fiction Since The Lost Ones
- B.Finney - Beckett's Fundamental Theatre: The Plays from Not I to What Where
- C.R.Lyons - Human Reality and Dramatic Method: Catastrophe, Not I and the Unpublished Plays
- D.McMillan - The Shape of Ideas: That Time and Footfalls
- J.Acheson - Texts for Company
- K.Arthur - Ill Seen Ill Said and the Sense of an Ending
- N.Zurbrugg - Voyelles, Cromlechs and the Special (W)rites of Worstward Ho
- E.Brater - Beckett's New Godot
- C.Duckworth - Company for Company: Androgyny and Theatricality in Samuel Beckett's Prose
- S.E.Gontarski - Index
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