Deleuze and Beckett

David Addyman, University of Bergen, Norway Ruben Borg, Hebrew University, Israel Arka Chattopadhyay, University of Western Sydney, Australia Garin Dowd, University of West London, UK Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA Benjamin Keatinge, South East Europe University, Macedonia Daniel Koczy, Northumbria University, UK Timothy S. Murphy, Oklahoma State University, USA Isabelle Ost, Saint-Louis University, Belgium Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney, Australia

• Introduction; S. E. Wilmer and Audron? Žukauskait?PART I: DIFFERENCE, BECOMING, MULTIPLICITY1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze; Anthony Uhlmann2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze; S. E. Gontarski3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible; Audron? Žukauskait?PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIALITY4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett ' 's Gallery of Moribunds; Ben Keatinge5. ' 'Till ooze again and on ' ': Textual Desire and the Subject ' 's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze, Lacan); Isabelle Ost6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett ' 's Sociendum; Timothy S. MurphyPART III: SPACE, TIME AND MEMORY 7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson; David Addyman8. The Problem of the Any-space-whatever between Deleuze ' 's Cinema and Beckett ' 's Prose; Garin Dowd9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan' 's Krapp ' 's Last Tape and Steenbeckett; Colin GardnerPART IV: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE 10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinker; Ruben Borg11. A Crystal-theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre ' 's Crystalline Potential; Daniel Koczy12. ' 'I switch off ' ': Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event; Arka ChattopadhyayIndex

"The book would inspire a fundamental reappraisal of the works of Beckett, challenging the prevailing view that situated Beckett within the series of well-known existential thinkers -Sartre, Camus, Ionesco -who dominated mid-twentieth-century French philosophy. ... In short, we have that rare and admirable thing in an academic text: an open invitation to create new combinations of thought." (Tony Fisher, Theatre Research International, Vol. 41 (2), 2016) "Deleuze and Beckett offers a valuable summary of existing scholarship in this area and brings many of its leading voices together to create a series of compelling dialogues between Deleuze and Beckett ... . the collection addresses a wide range of works in both their oeuvres, as well as the authors' readings of other artists and philosophers (such as Bergson), and opens up insights into the philosophical frameworks posited by Deleuze and the radically innovative aesthetics of Beckett's work." (Anna McMullan, Modern Drama, Vol. 59 (2), 2016)