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"Beginning of the murmur" : archival pre-texts and other sources / edited by Conor Carville, Mark Nixon.

Other author/creatorCarville, Conor, 1967- editor.
Other author/creatorNixon, Mark editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
Copyright Notice ©2015
Description244 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui, 0927-3131 ; volume 27
Samuel Beckett today/aujourd'hui ; 27. ^A1296625
Contents Introduction -- 1. Six Notebooks in Search of a Novel: A 'First Apercu' of Beckett's Murphy in Embryo / John Pilling -- 2. "Buckled Discourses": Disability and Degeneration in Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks / Siobhan Purcell -- 3. Poets of Their Own Acts: Tactics, Style and Occupation in Beckett's Nouvelles / Amanda M. Dennis -- 4. Samuel Beckett's Critical Abstractions: Kandinsky, Duthuit and Visual Form / Tim Lawrence -- 5. "Petrified in Radiance": Beckett, Dutch Painting and the Art of Absorption / Conor Carville -- 6. Personal Apperception: Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and Paul Cezanne's La Montagne Sainte-Victoire / Georgina Nugent-Folan -- 7. Queer Relations or the "Incoercible Absence of Relation" in Beckett's Watt and the Post-War Prose / Paul Stewart -- 8. "Without Solution of Continuity": Beckett's That Time and Trauma Memoir / Rhys Tranter -- 9. Performing Rights(s): Legal Constraints and Beckett's Plays on BBC Television / Jonathan Bignell -- 10. "Just Howls From Time To Time": Dating Pochade Radiophonique / Pim Verhulst -- 11. "And Then The Mexicans": Samuel Beckett's Notes Toward An Anthology of Mexican Poetry / Maria Jose Carrera -- 12. Seeing Things: The Brain and Beckett's Archive / Peter Fifield -- Free Space -- 13. Comment Traduire La Femme-Calembour De Whoroscope? / Edward Bizub -- 14. Beckett's "One Evening": An Anthropomorphic Still Life / Lasse Gammelgaard -- 15. Marxism And Irish Communism in Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks / Scott Eric Hamilton -- 16. Drinkin' Beer N' Vino' N' Jameson: From Booze to Birth in Beckett / Rodney Sharkey -- Contributors/Auteurs
Summary This book collects a range of essays reflecting the diversity of Beckett Studies, many of which were presented at the conference in Reading to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Beckett International Foundation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN9789004309913 (hardback)
ISBN9004309918 (hardback)
ISBN(ebook)

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