...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...

... notions 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...

... 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 is...

... © 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...

... 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 a...

... © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 Notes on Contributors Shoshana Benjamin is a Beckett scholar who has branched out into the study of cryptic literature. She has taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at Beit Rivka Teachers College, Kfar Chabad. Luc...

... 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) and Beckett Writing Beckett (1996); Diary Fiction: Writing as Action...

... 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 a...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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: The...

... Abbott H. Porter 2008 “ I Am Not a Philosopher ”, in Beckett at 100: Revolving It All , edited by Ben-Zvi Linda Moorjani Angela , 81 – 92 ( New York : Oxford University Press ). 2009 “ Law, Agency, and Unnarratable Action ”, Michigan State Law Review 4 : 875 – 83...

... experimental typographies. The following parts 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...

..., Russell and the Epistemolo of Modernism Her current project is a book on Samuel Beckett, the mother tongue, and the exploitation of the ‘‘syntacticon David S. Danaher is an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published articles on...

... his refusal to forgive them. In fact, the quote with which he opens the book broadcasts this atti- tude. It is from Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies (1951): Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atro- cious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the...

... 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...

... may be further described as a kind of puzzle. On the basis of my work on Samuel Beckett's cryptic novel Watt (Benjamin 1990, 1997) and sporadic dabbling elsewhere, including preliminary investigations of certain works by Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll, I believe puzzles to be the hallmark of...

... the Psychological Activities of Reading (New Haven,CT: Yale University Press). Iser, Wolfgang 1974 [1972] The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). 1978 [1976] The Act of Reading: A Theory of...