TY - BOOK AU - Gontarski,S.E. AU - Ackerley,C.J. AU - Badiou,Alain AU - Baker,Phil AU - Beplate,Justin AU - Bouchard,Norma AU - Bryden,Mary AU - Caselli,Daniela AU - Clément,Bruno AU - Doherty,Francis AU - Gontarski,S.E. AU - Knowlson,James AU - Lawley,Paul AU - Nixon,Mark AU - O’Hara,J.D. AU - Pilling,John AU - Weller,Shane AU - Wheatley,David TI - The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories and Translations SN - 9780748665709 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Beckett’s Papers, Foul and Fair --; Foul Papers: Archives and Sources --; 2. Mahaffy’s Whoroscope --; 3. Beckett’s ‘Malacoda’: or, Dante’s Devil Plays Beethoven --; 4. Beckett’s Mirlitonnades: A Manuscript Study --; 5. Pour finir encore: A Manuscript Study --; 6. Dates and Difficulties in Beckett’s Whoroscope Notebook --; 7. ‘the remains of trace’: Intra- and Intertextual Transferences in Beckett’s Mirlitonnades Manuscripts --; 8. The Stamp of the Father in Molloy --; 9. A Note on Benozzo Gozzoli --; Fair Papers: Theories and Translations --; 10. From the Lowlands to the Twin Peaks of ‘Assumption’ --; 11. Refiguring, Revising and Reprinting The Lost Ones --; 12. Beckett and Leopardi --; 13. Recovering Beckett’s Italian Translations --; 14. A Rhetoric of Ill-Saying --; 15. Beckett’s Generic Writing --; 16. This Little Sound Now in Beckett’s From an Abandoned Work --; 17. Endgame in the Subjunctive --; 18. ‘All the Dead Voices’: Beckett and the Ethics of Elegy --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Provides Beckett scholars with a range of first-class essays in a single volumeThe Reader makes readily available for the first time 18 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present. Divided into two sections, Sources and Archives and Theories and Translations, and containing work by some of the world’s leading Beckett scholars (including John Pilling, James Knowlson, Shane Wellar and Mary Bryden) the volume reflects both a distinctive European emphasis as well as the ‘new pragmatism’ within Beckett Studies.Key FeaturesGathers 5 strongly textual essays laying out the underpinnings of Beckett’s texts Includes 2 theoretically informed essays by major French philosophers, Bruno Clément and Alain BadiouOffers a distinctive European emphasis, including studies of Beckett’s Italian translationsBrings together in one place high-quality, original research from immediately recognizable names in the field UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468558 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474468558 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474468558/original ER -