4. Beckett's "Exhausted" Archives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Question of Literature 27
6. 2. A Singular Odyssey 55
7. 3. Beckett, Derrida, and the Ordinary 71
8. 4. Beckett's "Exhausted" Archives 92
9. 5. Singular Points of Transaction (I): The Subject 118
10. 6. Singular Points of Transaction (II): "What Are Poets For?" The Authority of Literature 140
11. 7. Singular Points of Transaction (III): "Wanting in Inanity." Negativity, Language, and "God" in Beckett 161
12. Concluding Remarks 183
13. Notes 193
14. Bibliography 231
15. Index 241
16. Cultural Memory in the Present 247