...H. Porter Abbott © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Elizabeth Barry, Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliché . Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 232 pp. Beckett, Samuel 1956 Waiting for Godot (London: Faber). 1961 Happy Days (New...

...Ingo Berensmeyer The formal specifics of Samuel Beckett's writing have so far been redescribed in terms of mysticism, ordinary language philosophy,phenomenology, and deconstruction. Expanding on but also departing from these descriptions, this article tests the capability of a different heuristic...

... of the event and of eventfulness. The article uses as case studies Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy , Brian Singer’s film The Usual Suspects , Robert Coover’s short story “The Babysitter,” and Shelley Jackson’s novel Half Life and argues that a more effective approach to such texts, via the event-as-system model...

... narrative conventions, “Lessness” and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett. This two-part case study focuses on the levels of “narrative” and “narration,” respectively, and shows how, on the one hand, genetic criticism can provide data to corroborate a narratological analysis and how, on the other hand...

... Literature at the University of Antwerp, where he directs the Centre for Manuscript Genetics. He is the current president of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and board member of the Samuel Beckett Society. Together with Mark Nixon, he...

... to accommodate competing intentional interpretations. The principal exchange value of my hypothesis for the sciences of cognition lies in the questions it raises regarding the complexity of reader response. References Abbott H. Porter 2008 “ I Am Not a Philosopher ”, in Beckett at 100: Revolving...

... © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 Notes on Contributors H. Porter Abbott is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include two books on Samuel Beckett (The Fiction of Samuel Beckett and Beckett Writing...

... © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Notes on Contributors H. Porter Abbott is Research Professor Emeritus in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include two books on Samuel Beckett, The Fiction of Samuel Beckett (1973...

... in the five literary texts are rhythmically patterned, whereas almost one-quarter of the stresses in the Attridge prose are not. By contrast, Beckett's prose is as highly rhythmically patterned as Ashbery's free verse poem, with 100 percent of stresses so organized. A second rhythmic variation concerns...

... 2008 Notes on Contributors H. Porter Abbott is research professor emeritus of English at the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara. His publications include The Fiction of Samuel Beckett: Form and Effect (1975), Diary Fiction: Writing as Action (1984), Beckett Writing Beckett...

... techniques employed by Jo- sipovici, such as external focalization. Also, Fludernik deals with Josipo- vici’s debt to Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter and compares Josipovici’s texts with the French nouveau roman. She argues that as far as Josipovici’s plays are concerned, he joined hands with Beckett...

... at classification according to periodization, theme, and genre and then moves on to text-internal aspects. She pays particular attention to the narrative techniques employed by Jo- sipovici, such as external focalization. Also, Fludernik deals with Josipo- vici’s debt to Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter...

... by Miller Richard ( New York : Hill and Wang ). 1988 “ From Work to Text ,” in Image, Music, Text , edited by Heath Stephen , 155 – 64 ( New York : Noonday ). Bataille Georges 1986 “ Molloy’s Silence ,” edited by Pilling John , in On Beckett: Essays and Criticism...

... of the book consist of analyses of specific novels.The second part, ‘‘Time Forks and Time Loops deals with Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela (Hopscotch), Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Topologie d’une cité fantôme, and Samuel Beckett’s HowItIs. The analysis of Rayuela enables Heise to ex- amine the question...

... 2006 Notes on Contributors H. Porter Abbott is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent books are Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Auto- graph (1996) and The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (2002). In 2001, he edited...

... : Rutgers University Press ). Beach Joseph Warren 1945 “ ‘The Figure in the Carpet,’ ” in The Question of Henry James , edited by Dupee F. W. , 92 – 104 ( New York : Holt ). Beckett Samuel 1959 [1953] Watt ( New York : Grove ). Beckett Samuel 1972 [1934...

... 2008 Notes on Contributors H. Porter Abbott is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent books are Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph (1996) and The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (2002). In 2000 he edited...

... of hearing those sentiments expressed. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Beckett, Samuel 1995 Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (New York: Grove). Nir, Yehuda 1989 The Lost Childhood (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Salsitz, Norman...

..., and performance—a relationship that remains in play in every interaction. References Austin J. L. 1975 . How to Do Things with Words . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bayley John . 2002 . Iris; Iris and the Friends: An Omnibus Edition . London : Duckworth . Beckett...

... Andrews und Tom Jones,” in Der implizite Leser: Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett , 57 -93 (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag). 1974 [1972] The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett , translated by David Henry Wilson (Baltimore, MD: Johns...