Beckett, Samuel - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bernstein, Stephen. “The Gothicism of Beckett's Murphy.” Notes on Modern Irish Literature 6 (1994): 25-30.

Considers Murphy as an example of “gothic revisionism,” arguing that in this novel “Beckett dismantles the scenario of middle class married bliss positively envisioned in the endings of such earlier gothics as The Castle of Otronto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk, and The Italian and suggests instead that such an existence is where horror truly resides.”

Caselli, Daniela. “Beckett's Intertextual Modalities of Appropriation: The Case of Leopardi.” Journal of Beckett Studies 6, no. 1 (autumn 1996): 1-24.

Uses the critical concept of “intertextuality” to discern the “presence” in Beckett's works of the writings of the nineteenth-century Italian author Giacomo Leopardi.

Cook, Albert. “Minimalism, Silence,...

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