"Beginning of the murmur" : archival pre-texts and other sources / edited by Conor Carville, Mark Nixon.
| Other author | Carville, Conor, 1967- editor. |
| Other author | Nixon, Mark editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2015] |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | 244 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9789004309913 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9004309918 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PR6003 .E282 Z4586 V.27 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |