Beckett and Eros

PAUL DAVIES is a Lecturer of English at the University of Ulster. He has contributed to numerous books, journals and conferences and is author of Romanticism and Esoteric Tradition (1998), and The Ideal Real: Beckett's Fiction and Imagination (1994).

• Acknowledgements Preface PART I: WOMB OF THE GREAT MOTHER EMPTINESS: Mythopoetics Contexts for Beckett Beckett and Eros: Mentioning the Unmentionable Mythographic Reading Elysium of the Roofless Beckett, the Heart Sutra, and dzogchen Complete Being PART II: THE DARK STREAM: Beckett's Mythologies of Eros What it is Their Humanity Stifles ( Eleutheria, The Unnamable, Texts For Nothing ) After the Second Crisis: Entering the Cylinder ( How It Is, Imagination Dead Imagine, Words and Music ) Krapp's Tapes and the Myth of Recurrence ( Krapp's Last Tape ) Mrs Rooney at the Mouth of Creation ( All that Fall ) Care and Punish ( Roughs for Theatre and Radio, As The Story Was Told ) Madness of the Norm ( Not I, That Time, Footfalls ) Open Sky Mind ( Cascando, Nohow On, Stirrings Still ) That Unheeded Neither ( neither ) Notes Bibliography Index