Beckett And Death, Vol. 2
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Death is indisputably central to Beckett’s writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett’s poems, novels, plays and short stories through considerations of mortality and death. Chapters explore the theme of deathliness in relation to Beckett’s work as a whole, through three main approaches. The first of these situates Beckett’s thinking about death in his own writing and reading processes, particularly with respect to manuscript drafts and letters. The second on the death of the subject in Beckett links dominant ‘poststructural’ readings of Beckett’s writing to the textual challenge exemplified by the The Unnamable. A final approach explores psychology and death, with emphasis on deathly states like catatonia and Cotard’s Syndrome that recur in Beckett’s work. Beckett and Death offers a range of cutting-edge approaches to the trope of mortality, and a unique insight into the relationship of this theme to all aspects of Beckett’s literature.
Acknowledgments ixNotes on Contributors xCritical Foreword: Beckett and Death Steven Barfield Philip Tew 1Introduction: "Strange Exalted Death!" Disinterring Beckett and Death Matthew Feldman 91 "Writing Myself into the Ground": Textual Existence and Death in Beckett Mark Nixon 222 "Orgy of False Being Life in Common": Beckett and the Politics of Death Shane Weller 313 "O Death Where Is Thy Sting?" Finding Words for the Big Ideas Sean Lawlor 504 Beckett, Augustine, and the Rhetoric of Dying Elizabeth Barry 725 Inane Space and Lively Place in Beckett's Forties Fiction David Addyman 896 Beckett's Unholy Dying: From Malone Dies to The Unnamable Erik Tonning 1067 Beckett's Amnesiacs, Neuropsychology, and Temporal Moribundity Peter Fifield 1288 "A Voice Comes to One in the Dark. Imagine": Radio, the Listener, and the Dark Comedy of All That Fall Julie Campbell 1479 Sterile Reproduction: Beckett's Death of the Species and Fictional Regeneration Paul Stewart 16910 Beckett's Late Style Steven Matthews 188Afterword: Samuel Beckett's Cemeteries Chris Ackerley 206Index 223
