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Author:   Dr Peter Fifield (St John's College, Oxford University, UK) ,  Dr David Addyman ,  Professor Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Prof Graley Herren (Xavier University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781408183618

ISBN 10:   1408183617
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction A Euclidean Logic? Beckett's Mathematics of the Stage (Professor C. J. Ackerley) Stations of a Mourner's Cross: Death, Loss and Ireland in Beckett's Drama (Dr Graley Herren) Erotics and Aesthetics in Beckett and Bataille (Dr Peter Fifield) Translating Duthuit: New Figures in Beckett's Philosophical Landscape (Dr David Addyman) Amnesia, Somnambulism, Fugue: Beckett and Silent Film (Dr Ulrika Maude) Beckett and the Influence of New Media, 1956-1960 (Dr Matthew Feldman) Sweet Thing Theology: Beckett, E. M. Cioran and the Lives of the Saints (Dr David Wheatley) Textual Performances: Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Notebooks (Dr Mark Nixon) Franco-Irish Beckett: Mercier et/and Camier in 1945-6 (Professor Andrew Gibson) 'It all': Tone in Beckett's Drama (Dr Iain Bailey) Wyndham Lewis’s Pseudocouple: The Childermass as a Precursor of Waiting for Godot (Yoshiki Tajiri) Notes Index

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Offers a judicious analysis of Lewis's generically hybrid novel of ideas and art criticism. * The Year's Work in English Studies *

Offers a judicious analysis of Lewis's generically hybrid novel of ideas and art criticism. The Year's Work in English Studies

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Dr David Addyman is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Fifield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, where he runs the international seminar series Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. He was organiser of the international conference Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive and is the editor of a Samuel Beckett special issue of Modernism/modernity, the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.

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