Beckett Critical Reader

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published more than 40 books, including The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations (2012), The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (2014), Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze (2015), Beckett Matters: Beckett’s Late Modernism (2016) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (2018).

• S. E. Gontarski, ‘Beckett’s Papers, Foul and Fair’; Foul Papers: Archives and Sources; Francis Doherty, ‘Mahaffy’s Whoroscope’; Chris Ackerley, ‘Beckett’s "Malacoda": or, Dante’s Devil Plays Beethoven’; David Wheatley, ‘Beckett’s Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study’; Mary Bryden, ‘"Pour Finir Encore": A Manuscript Study’; John Pilling, ‘Dates and Difficulties in Beckett’s Whoroscope Notebook’; Mark Nixon ‘"the remains of trace": Intra- and Intertextual Transferences in Beckett’s Mirlitonnades Manuscripts’; Phil Baker, ‘The Stamp of the Father in Molloy’; James Knowlson, ‘A Note on Benozzo Gozzoli’; Fair Papers: Theories and Translations; J. D. O’Hara, ‘From the Lowlands to the Twin Peaks of "Assumption"’; S. E. Gontarski, ‘Refiguring, Revising, and Reprinting The Lost Ones’; Daniela Caselli, ‘Beckett and Leopardi’; Norma Bouchard, ‘Recovering Beckett’s Italian Translations’; Bruno Clément, ‘A Rhetoric of Ill-Saying’ (trans. Thomas Cousineau); Alain Badiou, ‘Beckett’s Generic Writing’ (trans. Alban Urbanas); Justin Beplate, ‘This Little Sound Now in Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work’; Paul Lawley’s essay on ‘Endgame in the Subjunctive’; Shane Weller, ‘"All the Dead Voices": Beckett and the Ethics of Elegy’.

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