On Beckett: Essays and Criticism

doi:10.7135/UPO9780857285805

�On Beckett: Essays and Criticism� is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize�winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century � countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues geometrically. �On Beckett� brings together some of the most perceptive writings from the vast amount of scrutiny that has been lavished on the man; in addition to widely read essays there are contributions from more obscure sources, viewpoints not frequently seen. Together they allow the reader to enter the world of a writer whose work has left an impact on the consciousness of our time perhaps unmatched by that of any other recent creative imagination.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
pp vii-x
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The Essential Beckett: A Preface to the Second Edition
pp xi-xvi
- By S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University
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A Beckett Chronology
pp xvii-xxvi
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Acknowledgments
pp xxvii-xxx
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Crritics and Crriticism: “Getting Known”
pp 1-12
- By S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University
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Preliminaries
pp 13-14
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Beckett and Merlin
pp 15-22
- By Richard W. Seaver, Editor and founder of Merlin
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Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts: The Embarrassment of Allegory
pp 23-35
- By Dougald McMillan, The History of a Literary Era
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When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett
pp 36-50
- By Wolfgang Iser, English and comparative literature at the University
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The Page
pp 51-52
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Murphy and the Uses of Repetition
pp 53-71
- By Rubin Rabinovitz, English at the University of Colorado
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Watt
pp 72-91
- By Lawrence E. Harvey, Professor of English at Dartmouth College
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Mercier and Camier: Narration, Dante, and the Couple
pp 92-102
- By Eric P. Levy, the University of British
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Molloy's Silence
pp 103-110
- By Georges Bataille, French novelist, essayist
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Where Now? Who Now?
pp 111-117
- By Maurice Blanchot, French novelist and critic whose major critical work
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The Voice and Its Words: How It Is
pp 118-132
- By J. E. Dearlove, Samuel Beckett and is the author
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The Unnamable's First Voice?
pp 133-137
- By Chris Ackerley, The University of Otago
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Between Verse and Prose: Beckett and the New Poetry
pp 138-151
- By Marjorie Perloff, literature at Stanford University
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Worstward Ho
pp 152-154
- By Dougald McMillan, The History of a Literary Era
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The Stage
pp 155-156
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MacGowran on Beckett
pp 157-166
- By Richard Toscan, The University of Southern California
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Blin on Beckett
pp 167-174
- By Tom Bishop, New York University
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Working with Beckett
pp 175-188
- By Alan Schneider, Tony Award-winning American
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Notes from the Underground: Waiting for Godot and Endgame
pp 189-208
- By Herbert Blau, English at the University of Washington
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Beckett Directs Godot
pp 209-217
- By Walter D. Asmus, theater director in Germany
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Beckett Directs: Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape
pp 218-231
- By Ruby Cohn, the University of California
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Literary Allusions in Happy Days
pp 232-244
- By S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University
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Counterpoint, Absence, and the Medium in Beckett's Not I
pp 245-252
- By Paul Lawley, The University of Plymouth
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Rehearsal Notes for the German Premiere of Beckett's That Time and Footfalls
pp 253-264
- By Walter D. Asmus, Director in Germany
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