The Beckett Critical Reader : : Archives, Theories and Translations / / S.E. Gontarski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gontarski, S.E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Ackerley, C. J.,; Badiou, Alain,; Baker, Phil,; Beplate, Justin,; Bouchard, Norma,; Bryden, Mary,; Caselli, Daniela,; Clément, Bruno,; Doherty, Francis,; Gontarski, S. E.,; Knowlson, James,; Lawley, Paul,; Nixon, Mark,; O’Hara, J. D.,; Pilling, John,; Weller, Shane,; Wheatley, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Beckett’s Papers, Foul and Fair --; Foul Papers: Archives and Sources --; 2. Mahaffy’s Whoroscope --; 3. Beckett’s ‘Malacoda’: or, Dante’s Devil Plays Beethoven --; 4. Beckett’s Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study --; 5. Pour finir encore: A Manuscript Study --; 6. Dates and Difficulties in Beckett’s Whoroscope Notebook --; 7. ‘the remains of trace’: Intra- and Intertextual Transferences in Beckett’s Mirlitonnades Manuscripts --; 8. The Stamp of the Father in Molloy --; 9. A Note on Benozzo Gozzoli --; Fair Papers: Theories and Translations --; 10. From the Lowlands to the Twin Peaks of ‘Assumption’ --; 11. Refiguring, Revising and Reprinting The Lost Ones --; 12. Beckett and Leopardi --; 13. Recovering Beckett’s Italian Translations --; 14. A Rhetoric of Ill-Saying --; 15. Beckett’s Generic Writing --; 16. This Little Sound Now in Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work --; 17. Endgame in the Subjunctive --; 18. ‘All the Dead Voices’: Beckett and the Ethics of Elegy --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474468558; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474468558
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: S.E. Gontarski.

Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volumeThe 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.Key FeaturesGathers 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 BadiouOffers a distinctive European emphasis, including studies of Beckett’s Italian translationsBrings together in one place high-quality, original research from immediately recognizable names in the field