... University Samuel Beckett. By JOHN PILLING.London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. x i- 244 pp. $16.00. John Pilling’s Samuel Beckett is the first full-length study to draw system- atically upon the considerable resources of the Beckett Archive at the Univer- sity...

... of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. By KRISTINMORRISON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. viii + 228 pp. $20.00. Kristin Morrison devotes an initial, eight-page chapter to terminological and theoretical issues. The title of the chapter is a quotation: “Get into my...

...; he has found “controlled dreams”3 and, most important, a quest which has nothing in common with a project or a goal. ~. REN~ERIESE HUBERT University of Illinois Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett’s Early Fiction. By RAYMONDFEDERMAN...

...-that he did know how to go on.’ THE STORYTELLER AND THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE IN SAMUEL BECKETT’S FICTION By GERALDL. BRUNS The world of Samuel Beckett’s fiction, it is now commonplace to observe, is governed at least in part by a Cartesian...

...Damian Love © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Damian Love recently completed a DPhil on Samuel Beckett at Saint Anne's College, Oxford. He has also published articles on Old and Middle English literature. Doing Him into the Eye: Samuel Beckett’s Rimbaud Damian Love...

...Elliott Turley Abstract Samuel Beckett’s interest in tragicomedy has been clear since he attached the subtitle A Tragicomedy in Two Acts to the English translation of Waiting for Godot . This article articulates what exactly Beckettian tragicomedy does. Godot , Beckett’s foremost tragicomedy...

...Gerald L. Bruns This essay attempts to situate Samuel Beckett’s fiction in the Parisian intellectual and literary milieu of Maurice Blanchot, particularly with respect to the experience of the materiality of language and the double bind of writing in which—as Blanchot wrote in Faux pas (1943...

... world. Pound’s concerns in this respect are read in relation to those of the Irish Samuel Beckett and above all the Scottish Hugh MacDiarmid, in their elaborations of a concept of the vernacular that they both deem “synthetic.” In all cases, translation or multilingualism becomes a central element...

...Valerio Amoretti Abstract This essay uses W. R. Bion’s object-relations theory to argue that the formal experiments in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable demand a distinctive kind of psychic work from readers. It describes this work in terms of containment , an unconscious mechanism that supports...

... “controlled dreams”3 and, most important, a quest which has nothing in common with a project or a goal. ~. REN~ERIESE HUBERT University of Illinois Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett’s Early Fiction. By RAYMONDFEDERMAN. Berkeley and Los Angeles...

...-petation, one hopes, will attract stu- dents of the period to these subjects, providing a useful stimulus and founda- tion for further work. GEORGEP. LANDOW Brown University Samuel Beckett. By JOHN PILLING.London and Boston: Routledge...

... that an existentialist triptych should have Sartre as its centerpiece.) Another way of looking at its organization is to say that the book proceeds from innocence of fictional technique (Kierkegaard), to relative sophistication (Sartre, who I Introduction to Samuel Beckett: A Collation of Critical Essavs...

... completed in 1976 and recently screened by the B.B.C., is already available in two printings, one in the opening number of the Journal ofBeckett Studies, the other in the 1976 Grove Press edition Ends and Odds. But these are minor quibbles. Pilling’s Samuel Beckett is an important new book. What...

...Enoch Brater Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE THINKING EYE IN BECKETT’S FILM By ENOCHI~RATER Samuel Beckett’s twenty-two-minute “comic and unreal” Film,’ pre- sentirig Buster Keaton in his last performarice on screen...

...). So begins Annabel L. Kim’s brilliant and delightfully ludic study of “the modern French canon’s profound excrementality” (3), a book replete with insightful close readings of twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Marguerite...

... determin- ism, to which one wants to be attentive, there is something in the move- ment of time or, so it seems, in the seeming itself — the apparitional substance of theater, like Marx’s phantoms of the brain — that escapes 1  Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (New York: Grove, 1954), 42...

... for accumulation of any kind” (24) that Matz says characterizes Flaubert’s style and Samuel Beckett’s is qualified and appears in most cases as an ambivalence. Even Flaubert, in the late correspondence and in the unfinished Bouvard et Pécuchet , has passages of sadness and self-satire on childlessness...

..., as Shreve, is entitled to address Shreve’s last question to the new Quentin: “Why do you hate the South?” JOHN TUCKER University of Victoria Canters and Chronicles: The Use of Narrative in the Plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter...

... of selfhood: “what [Wyndham] Lewis called ‘nonhu- man, nonpersonal laughter,’ what [Samuel] Beckett calls ‘mirthless laugh- ter,’ and what [Miller analyzes] as ‘self-reflexive laughter’” (63). Such a species of laughter—it is too far from the self to be termed humor...

... of selfhood: “what [Wyndham] Lewis called ‘nonhu- man, nonpersonal laughter,’ what [Samuel] Beckett calls ‘mirthless laugh- ter,’ and what [Miller analyzes] as ‘self-reflexive laughter’” (63). Such a species of laughter—it is too far from the self to be termed humor...