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Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's decadent turn

✍ Scribed by S. E. Gontarski

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
321
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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Demonology, Sade-ism, and Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn: An Introduction
PART ONE A Professional Life
1 Samuel Beckett and Lace Curtain Irish Modernisms
2 Publishing in America: Sam and Barney
3 Eleutheria: Samuel Beckett’s Suppressed Bohemian Manifesto
PART
TWO A Theatrical Life
4 Textual Aberrations, Ghost Texts, and the British Godot: A Saga of Censorship
5 “nothingness/in words enclose?”: Waiting for Godot
6 An End to Endings: Samuel Beckett’s End Game(s)
7 Samuel Beckett’s Art of Self-collaboration
8 Beckett’s Keyhole Art: Voyeurism, Schaulust, and the Perversions of Theater
9 “He wants to know if it hurts!”: The Body as Text in Samuel Beckett’s Theater
PART
THREE A Philosophical Life
10 Theoretical and Theatrical Intersections: Samuel Beckett, Herbert Blau, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Godot
11 Beckett and the Revisioning of Modernism(s): Molloy
12 A Sense of Unending: Fictions for the End of Time
13 The Death of Style: Samuel Beckett’s Art of Repetition, Pastiche, and Cutups
Bibliography
Index

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