Research Catalog

Title

Reflections on Beckett : a centenary celebration / edited by Anna McMullan and S. E. Wilmer.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McMullan, Anna, 1957-
• Wilmer, S. E.

Description

xiv, 241 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Theater : theory/text/performance

Uniform Title

Theater--theory/text/performance.

Subject

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217- 225) and index.

Contents

Beckett's bodies, or Dr. Johnson's "anatomy lesson" / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Beckett and nothing / Terry Eagleton -- Yeats and Beckett: the ghosts in the machines / Terence Brown -- "Who can shave an egg?": foreign tongues and primal sounds in Mallarmé and Beckett / Marina Warner -- Samuel Brecht and Bertolt Beckett: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as educators / Anthony Tatlow -- Among the deepening shades: the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest / Herbert Blau -- The great hole of history: "natural" catastrophe and liturgical science / Joseph Roach -- Revising himself: Samuel Beckett and the art of self-collaboration / S. E. Gontarski -- "They want to be entertained": performing Beckett / Barry McGovern -- Beckett's "Beckett": so many words for silence / Enoch Brater -- Beckett's trinities / Ruby Cohn.

Call Number

JFE 09-3036

ISBN

• 9780472116645 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0472116649 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2008038939

OCLC

246198962

Title

Reflections on Beckett : a centenary celebration / edited by Anna McMullan and S. E. Wilmer.

Imprint

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

Series

Theater : theory/text/performance

Theater--theory/text/performance.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217- 225) and index.

Added Author

McMullan, Anna, 1957-

Wilmer, S. E.

Research Call Number

JFE 09-3036