Beckett and Death

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. Steven Barfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.

• 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.' (Irish Studies Review)... a highly original and compelling collection of essays... a very strong collection, shedding new and original critical light on this so fundamental yet so highly contested element of Beckett's work. (Routledge ABES)"