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Book SynopsisWritten by a team of renowned scholars, The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett presents a continuum in Beckett studies ranging from theoretical approaches to performance studies, from manuscript research to the study of bilingualism. The emphasis on burgeoning critical approaches aids the reader's understanding of recent developments while prompting further exploration.
Trade Review'… provides a helpful introduction to key issues of the author's work.' J. S. Baggett, Choice
Table of Contents1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' John Pilling; 2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped Angela Moorjani; 3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' Peter Boxall; 4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett's cultural impact Rónán McDonald; 5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings Emilie Morin; 6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet Mark Nixon; 7. Beckett and late modernism Shane Weller; 8. Beckett's intertexts Anthony Uhlmann; 9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn Sam Slote; 10. Samuel Beckett and the 'idea' of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze S. E. Gontarski; 11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy Peter Fifield; 12. Love and lobsters: Beckett's meta-ethics Jean-Michael Rabaté; 13. Beckett, body and mind Ulrika Maude; 14. 'Humanity in ruins': Beckett and history Seán Kennedy.
