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Trade Review"Filled with a number of surprising observations, interpretative gestures, and previously unexplored connections […] Fresh insights and new interpretive encounters […] There is much to learn from this volume, while inspiring groundwork is laid for what are sure to be exciting new paths in Beckett scholarship." – Jacob Hovind, Towson University
Table of ContentsEarly Modern Beckett/Beckett et le début de l’ère moderne Introduction/Avant-propos I. In Dialogue with Dramatists and Writers/En dialogue avec des auteurs dramatiques et des écrivains Carla Taban: Le Molière de Beckett Angela Moorjani: Beckett’s Racinian Fictions: “Racine and the Modern Novel” Revisited Danièle de Ruyter: Fascination de la tragédie Racinienne: résonances dans Oh les beaux jours Arka Chattopadhyay: “Worst In Need Of Worse”: King Lear, Worstward Ho and the Trajectory of Worsening Julie Campbell: Allegories of Clarity and Obscurity: Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Beckett’s Molloy Seán Kennedy: Edmund Spenser, Famine Memory and the Discontents of Humanism in Endgame Melanie Foehn: A Rhetoric of Discontinuity: On Stylistic Parallels between Pascal’s Pensées and Samuel Beckett’s L’Innommable II. In Dialogue with Philosophers and Artists/En dialogue avec des philosophes et des artistes Yoshiyuki Inoue: Cartesian Mechanics in Beckett’s Fin de Partie Layla M. Roesler: En compagnie d’une métaphysique parodique: Beckett lecteur de Descartes redux Everett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx’s Ethics: “…my Geulincx could only be a literary fantasia” Naoya Mori: Beckett’s Faint Cries: Leibniz’s petites perceptions in First Love and Malone Dies Claire Lozier: Présence de la sculpture funéraire des débuts de l’époque moderne dans l’œuvre narrative de Samuel Beckett: du motif artistique religieux à sa laïcisation scripturale Joanne Shaw: Light and Darkness in Elsheimer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Beckett Beckett Between/Beckett entre deux Introduction Dúnlaith Bird: Light, Landscape and Beckett James Williams: Beckett between the Words: Punctuation and the Body in the English Prose Alys Moody: The Non-Lieu of Hunger: Post-war Beckett and the Genealogies of Starvation Dirk Van Hulle: The Extended Mind and Multiple Drafts: Beckett’s Models of the Mind and the Postcognitivist Paradigm Everett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx’s Metaphysics: “Without knowing why exactly” John Wall: “L’au-delà du dehors-dedans”: Paradox, Space and Movement in Beckett Lea Sinoimeri: “Ill-Told Ill-Heard”: Aurality and Reading in Comment c’est/How It Is Karine Germoni and Pascale Sardin: Tensions of the In-Between: Rhythm, Tonelessness and Lyricism in Fin de partie/Endgame Iain Baily: Beckett, Bilingualism and the Bible Garin Dowd: The Proxemics of “Neither” Contributors/Auteurs
