...Sue Wilson Copyright © 2003 Regents of the University of Colorado 2003 76 English Language Notes 32 Sena 186. 33 W. Douglas P. Hill, trans., The Bhagavadgila, 2nd ed. (1928; O xford: O xford UP, 1953) 76. 34 M iller 7. VERSIONS OF THE \TSION IN SAMUEL BECKETT S KRAPP S LAST TAPE Beckett...

... (1955) is one of the best known in the play. As the w ord n o th in g o r rien regularly punctuates the work, the line m ight be seen as cueing a them e. However, I would like to suggest that Beckett m ight have had som ething m ore specific in mind, namely, a rejection of the position advanced...

.... They have m ade m e waste m y time, suffer fo r nothing, speak o f them when, in order to stop speaking, I should have sp o ­ ken o f m e a n d m e alo n e 24 Such is the p ro b le m a tic o f speaking in and o f the firs t person p ro n o u n in th e th ird o f Sam uel Beckett's Trilogy, The U n n a m a b...

..., 1953) 76. 34 M iller 7. VERSIONS OF THE \TSION IN SAMUEL BECKETT S KRAPP S LAST TAPE Beckett criticism has often been content to reach the con­ clusion that metaphysical insight constitutes the greater glory of the works of Samuel Beckett. James Knowlson, for example, finds within Krapp s Last Tape...

... Gatsby. E dited by Jam es L. W. West III. Cam bridge: C am bridge UP, 2000. Pp. xxii + 192. hc. $39.95. 0521-40237-9. Friedm an, Alan W arren, ed. Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations ofNancy Cunard s Negro. L exington, KY: UP o f Kentucky, 2000. Pp. xl + 207. hc. $34.95. 0-8131-2129-9. Fuller, Da...

... Writing (W. W. Norton & Co, 2006). He served as president of the MLA in 2008. Elissa G u ra ln ic k is professor of English, College of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder. Her interest in words and music dates back to her book Sight Unseen: Beckett, Stoppard and Other Contemporary Dramatists...

..., but as a couple they are also cognate w ith Beckett's character types. They are a deliberately a rtifi­ cial construction that marks a type of deconstructed and static characterization connecting M elville's Bartleby to Beckett's tram ps. Like M elville's Bartleby, w ho does not fo llo w those w h o toil...

... of T oronto P, 1999. Pp. 111. pb. $13.95. 0-8020-8228-9. Josipovici, Gabriel. On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion. New H aven and London: Yale UP, 1999. Pp. ix + 294. he. 0-300-07991-5. Katz, Daniel. SayingINo More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose o fSamuel Beckett. Avant-Garde...

...Claudia Barnett Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 Decem ber 2002 57 3A rnold 665. 4A rnold 665 n. 5J o h n Pilling ed., Beckett s D ream Notebook (Reading: B eckett In tern atio n al F oundation, 1999) 140. 6Jam es Knowlson, The Life of Samuel Beckett (L ondon...

... that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos Is really som ething else . .. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task o f the artist now. Being Is constantly putting form In danger." Samuel Beckett Mallarmé dreamt of a spiritualized book, a poem of the deeply immanent...

... short fiction. A forgotten Edwardian short story with the existential angst of a Beckett play1 involving a child who is more valued when false than real, the beauty and senselessness of death, a clergyman who lives vicariously through the violence of suffragettes, and a woman so bored by her upper...

... the entire poem. Sim ilarly adopters frequently voice their desire for m ore contemporary, post-WWII material: this material is all under copyright protection, hence ordinarily quite expensive, and syllabi show that alm ost none of us actually teach anything in the survey past Samuel Beckett or so. One...

... FOR GODOT? N othing to be d o n e ; Rien à faire :1 the opening line of Waitingfor Godot (1955) is one of the best known in the play. As the w ord n o th in g o r rien regularly punctuates the work, the line m ight be seen as cueing a them e. However, I would like to suggest that Beckett m ight have...

... as as established authors and gives ex­ amples of entries from Beckett, Eliot, Lawrence, and A uden. As reviews of the S upplem ent began to be published Burchfield was challenged on his treatm ent o f literary language. H e ex­ p anded on his policy in the 1988 T.S. Eliot M emorial Lectures, where he took...