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Critical Response To Samuel Beckett, Vol. 30 »
Authors: Cathleen Culotta Andonian
ISBN-13: 9780313289101, ISBN-10: 0313289107
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Cathleen Culotta Andonian
CATHLEEN CULOTTA ANDONIAN is Lecturer in French and a Cross-Cultural Trainer.
Book Synopsis
Reviews and critical essays document the critical response to Samuel Beckett's poetry, fiction, and drama.
Booknews
Presents a documentary history of 58 previously published and original essays gathered to represent a comprehensive sample of the critical reception to the work of Beckett (author of , , , , and other works) over the space of his entire career. Some of the themes touched upon in the essays include: the comic elements in his prose and drama; the role of self- consciousness in his art; and his non-traditional approach to language, character, and plot. Also included are a couple of interviews with Beckett. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents
| Series Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Symbolism To-day | 13 | |
| Dubliners | 14 | |
| Samuel Beckett and His Whoroscope | 15 | |
| Savage Humor | 17 | |
| Fiction | 21 | |
| A Master Stylist | 22 | |
| Nought into Zero | 23 | |
| Under the Jar | 26 | |
| Samuel Beckett's World of Fiction | 27 | |
| Samuel Beckett and the Death of the God-Narrator | 39 | |
| Not Going Places | 51 | |
| L'Innommable and the Hermeneutic Paradigm | 54 | |
| Naming the M/inotaur: Beckett's Trilogy and the Failure of Narrative | 62 | |
| Beckett and the Comedy of Decomposition | 70 | |
| Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust | 79 | |
| Theatre (Review of Waiting for Godot) | 91 | |
| Theatre (Review of Waiting for Godot) | 93 | |
| The Uneventful Event | 95 | |
| En attendant Godot: Tragedy or Comedy? | 96 | |
| Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern: Language Games, Play, and Waiting for Godot | 106 | |
| How to Read Endgame | 114 | |
| Theatre (Review of Endgame) | 118 | |
| In the Ruins of the Past: Reading Beckett Intertextually | 120 | |
| Rebuke to Nihilism | 143 | |
| Krapp's Last Tape: The Evolution of a Play, 1958-75 | 146 | |
| Beckett Country | 161 | |
| Farewell to Incompetence: Beckett's How It Is and Imagination Dead Imagine | 166 | |
| Beckett's Sociability | 176 | |
| Samuel Beckett: An Interview | 191 | |
| Conversations with Samuel Beckett | 195 | |
| It's Tragic, Mysterious and Wildly Funny: That's What You Get When the B.B.C. Asks Samuel Beckett to Write a Play | 207 | |
| Beckett Country | 209 | |
| From Characters to Discrete Events: The Evolving Concept of Dramatis Personae in Beckett's Radio Plays | 211 | |
| "To Be Is to Be Perceived" ... Time and Point of View in Beckett's Film | 219 | |
| Godot Arrives | 227 | |
| Nobel Prize: Kyrie Eleison Without God | 229 | |
| Theatre (Review of Happy Days) | 233 | |
| The Stage: Beckett's Happy Days | 235 | |
| The Parodox of Silence: Samuel Beckett's Plays | 237 | |
| The New Beckett | 245 | |
| Samuel Beckett: about him and about | 247 | |
| On the Route of a Walking Shadow: Samuel Beckett's Come and Go | 262 | |
| Bare Bones: As a lady slips her moorings, Beckett sounds a hopeful note | 273 | |
| Review: The World Premiere of Ohio Impromptu, Directed by Alan Schneider at Columbus, Ohio | 275 | |
| Impact and Parable in Beckett: A First Encounter with Not I | 278 | |
| Recontextualizing the Self: The Voice as Subject in Beckett's Not I | 287 | |
| A Rereading of the Traces | 303 | |
| Samuel Beckett: "Imagination Dead Imagine" | 309 | |
| "Silence Within": A Study of the Residua of Samuel Beckett | 310 | |
| The Impossibility of Saying the Same Old Thing the Same Old Way - Samuel Beckett's Fiction Since Comment c'est | 326 | |
| Beckett's Deconstruction of the Machine in The Lost Ones | 347 | |
| Conceptions of Inner Landscapes: The Beckettian Narrator of the Sixties and Seventies | 357 | |
| The Weaving of Penelope's Tapestry: Genre in the Works of Samuel Beckett | 367 | |
| Samuel Beckett's For to End Yet Again: A Conflict between "Syntax of Energy" and "Syntax of Weakness" | 373 | |
| Sublime Supplements: Beckett and the "Fizzling Out" of Meaning | 391 | |
| Who's Afraid of Samuel Beckett? | 403 | |
| An Intimate Look at Beckett the Man | 414 | |
| Giving Birth "Astride of a Grave," Samuel Beckett: 1906-1989 | 416 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 419 | |
| Index | 423 |
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