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Beckett and Nothing: Trying to understand Beckett

✍ Scribed by Daniela Caselli (editor)

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
292
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett’s prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Nothing new
Introduction: Beckett and nothing: trying to understand Beckett
On not being there: going on without in Beckett
Nothing of value: reading Beckett’s negativity
Nothing has changed
‘A tangle of tatters’: ghosts and the busy nothing in Footfalls
Nothings in particular
Unwords
Into the void: Beckett’s television plays and the idea of broadcastingl
Beckett, Feldman, Salcedo . . . Neither
From Film to literature: theoretical debates and the critical erasure of Beckett’s cinema
Beckett and unheard sound
It’s nothing: Beckett and anxiety
‘Something or nothing’: Beckett and the matter of language
Coda: The no-thing that knows no name and the Beckett envelope, blissfully reconsidered
Bibliography
Index

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