Samuel Beckett (Paperback)

Contents  Acknowledgements  Editors' Note  Introduction  Part One : Political Criticism  1. Theodor W. Adorno Trying to Understand Endgame  2. Stephen Watt Beckett by Way of Baudrillard : Toward a Political Reading of Samuel Beckett's Drama  3. Patricia Coughlan 'The Poetry is Another Pair of Sleeves' : Beckett, Ireland and Modernist Lyric Poetry  Part Two : Literature/Philosophy  4. Georges Bataille Molloy's Silence  5. Maurice Blanchot Where now? Who now?  6. Leslie Hill The Trilogy Translated  Part Three : Deconstruction  7. Steven Connor Voice and Mechanical Reproduction : Krapp's Last Tape, Ohio Impromptu, Rockaby, That Time  8. Thomas Trezise Dispossession  Part Four : Psychoanalytic Criticism  9. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari Disiring - Production : The Schizo's Stroll  10. David Watson The Fictional Body ; Le Depeupleur  11. Daniel Katz 'Alone in the Accusative' : Beckett's Narcissistic Echoes  Part Five : Reader Reception  12. Wolfgang Iser The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett's Theater  Part Six : Semiotics  13. Carla Locatelli Comic Strategies in Beckett's Narratives  Part Seven : Feminism/Gender  14. Julia Kristeva The Father, Love and Banishment  15. Linda Ben-Zvi Not I : Through a Tube Starkly  Glossary  Notes on Authors  Further Reading  Index