Beckett and Death

Steven Barfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. Matthew Feldman is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Northampton, UK. Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

• Introduction: "Strange exalted death!"- Disinterring Beckett and Death - Matthew Feldman, University of Northampton, UK; 1. "Writing myself into the ground": Textual Existence and Death in Beckett - Mark Nixon, University of Reading, UK; Beckett, Derrida and the Death of the Subject - Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University, UK; 2. "Orgy of false being life in common": Beckett and the Politics of Death - Shane Weller, University of Kent, UK; 3. "O Death where is thy sting?" Finding words for the big ideas - Sean Lawlor, University of Reading, UK; 4. Beckett, Augustine, and the Rhetoric of Dying - Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick, UK; 5. Inane Space and Lively Place in Beckett's Forties Fiction - David Addyman; 6. Beckett's Unholy Dying: From Malone Dies to The Unnameable - Erik Tonning, University of Oxford, UK; 7. Beckett's Amnesiacs, Neuropsychology and Temporal Moribundity, Peter Fifield, University of York, UK; 8. "A voice comes to one in the dark. Imagine": Radio, the Listener and the Dark Comedy of All That Fall - Julie Campbell, University of Southhampton, UK; 9. Sterile Reproduction: Beckett's Death of the Species and Fictional Regeneration - Paul Stewart, Intercollege, Cyprus; 10. Beckett's Late Style - Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University, UK; Afterword: Samuel Beckett's Cemeteries - Chris Ackerley, University of Otago, NZ; Index.

‘The sheer breadth of material and approaches identifies this collection as a useful resource for Beckettians of all critical persuasions.'