The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts

S.E. Gontarski

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The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts

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Published/Copyright: 2014

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The 35 new and original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Beckett’s work world-wide.
As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; Fictions; European Context; Irish Context; Film, Radio & Television; Language/Writing; Philosophies; Theatre & Performance; Global Beckett.
Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation.

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Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism – The Questions We Ask
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S. E. Gontarski

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Part 1: Art and Aesthetics
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1. ‘Deux Besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma
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C. J. Ackerley

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2. ‘Siege Laid Again’: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage
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David Lloyd

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3. Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot
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Ulrika Maude

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4. Pain Degree Zero
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Sam Slote

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5. Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels
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Paul Stewart

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6. A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s Three Novels
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Andrew V. McFeaters

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7. Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett’s Short Prose
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Tomasz Wiśniewski

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Part 3: A European Context
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8. French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945–52
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Andrew Gibson

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9. Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing
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John Pilling

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10. Beckett’s Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation
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Jean-Michel Rabaté

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11. Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialo
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Anthony Uhlmann

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12. Gloria SMH and Beckett’s Linguistic Encryptions
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Laura Salisbury

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13. ‘I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’ (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde
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Peter Fifield

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14. Beckett and Contemporary French Literature
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Sjef Houppermans

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15. The ‘Irish’ Translation of Samuel Beckett’s En Attendant Godot
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Anthony Roche

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16. Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in
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Emilie Morin

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17. ‘Bid Us Sigh On from Day to Day’: Beckett and the Irish Big House
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Seán Kennedy

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18. A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy
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Graley Herren

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19. ‘The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett’s Radio Plays
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Everett C. Frost

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20. ‘Was That a Point?’: Beckett’s Punctuation
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Steven Connor

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21. Beckett’s Unpublished Canon
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Mark Nixon

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22. Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship
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Dirk Van Hulle

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23. Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading
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Adam Piette

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24. Beckett and Philosophy
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Matthew Feldman

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25. ‘Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental
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S. E. Gontarski

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26. Beckett, Modernism and Christianity
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Erik Tonning

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27. ‘Oh Lovely Art’: Beckett and Music
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David Tucker

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28. Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake
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Laura Peja

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29. Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett’s ‘A Piece of Monologue’ Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce
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John Paul Riquelme

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30. Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert’s Contribution to Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Aesthetics
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Anna McMullan

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31. Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude – Beckett’s Endgame
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Annamaria Cascetta

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32. Performing the Formless
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Geneviève Chevallier

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33. ‘Facing Other Windows’: Beckett in Brazil
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Fábio de Souza Andrade

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34. Beckett in Belgrade
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Predrag Todorovic

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35. ‘Struggling With a Dead Language’: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s
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Mariko Hori Tanaka

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Contributors
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Index
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The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts

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About this book

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism – The Questions We Ask

1. ‘Deux Besoins’: Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma

2. ‘Siege Laid Again’: Arikha’s Gaze, Beckett’s Painted Stage

3. Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot

4. Pain Degree Zero

5. Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels

6. A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s Three Novels

7. Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett’s Short Prose

8. French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945–52

9. Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing

10. Beckett’s Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation

11. Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialo

12. Gloria SMH and Beckett’s Linguistic Encryptions

13. ‘I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say’ (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde

14. Beckett and Contemporary French Literature

15. The ‘Irish’ Translation of Samuel Beckett’s En Attendant Godot

16. Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in

17. ‘Bid Us Sigh On from Day to Day’: Beckett and the Irish Big House

18. A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy

19. ‘The Sound Is Enough’: Beckett’s Radio Plays

20. ‘Was That a Point?’: Beckett’s Punctuation

21. Beckett’s Unpublished Canon

22. Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship

23. Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading

24. Beckett and Philosophy

25. ‘Ruse a by’: Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental

26. Beckett, Modernism and Christianity

27. ‘Oh Lovely Art’: Beckett and Music

28. Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake

29. Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett’s ‘A Piece of Monologue’ Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce

30. Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert’s Contribution to Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Aesthetics

31. Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude – Beckett’s Endgame

32. Performing the Formless

33. ‘Facing Other Windows’: Beckett in Brazil

34. Beckett in Belgrade

35. ‘Struggling With a Dead Language’: Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s

Contributors

Index

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