Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. 1. Beckett’s Papers, Foul and Fair 1
5. Foul Papers: Archives and Sources
6. 2. Mahaffy’s Whoroscope 15
7. 3. Beckett’s ‘Malacoda’: or, Dante’s Devil Plays Beethoven 32
8. 4. Beckett’s Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study 38
9. 5. Pour finir encore: A Manuscript Study 67
10. 6. Dates and Difficulties in Beckett’s Whoroscope Notebook 80
11. 7. ‘the remains of trace’: Intra- and Intertextual Transferences in Beckett’s Mirlitonnades Manuscripts 90
12. 8. The Stamp of the Father in Molloy 105
13. 9. A Note on Benozzo Gozzoli 119
14. Fair Papers: Theories and Translations
15. 10. From the Lowlands to the Twin Peaks of ‘Assumption’ 127
16. 11. Refiguring, Revising and Reprinting The Lost Ones 131
17. 12. Beckett and Leopardi 135
18. 13. Recovering Beckett’s Italian Translations 152
19. 14. A Rhetoric of Ill-Saying 168
20. 15. Beckett’s Generic Writing 189
21. 16. This Little Sound Now in Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work 198
22. 17. Endgame in the Subjunctive 214
23. 18. ‘All the Dead Voices’: Beckett and the Ethics of Elegy 224
24. Contributors 239
25. Index 245