Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Criticism

• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 3)
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 1)
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 6)
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 9)
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 10)
  • Introduction
  • Samuel Beckett, or Presence on the Stage
  • The Strange World of Beckett's 'grands articulés'
  • The Exhilarating Mr. Beckett
  • The Process of Imaginative Creation in Samuel Beckett's 'How It Is'
  • Life and Death in Beckett's Four Stories
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 11)
  • Introduction
  • The Beckett Hero
  • 'Molloy' or the Quest for Meaninglessness: A Global Interpretation
  • 'What's It Meant to Mean?': An Approach to Beckett's Theatre
  • 'Coloured Images' in the 'Black Dark': Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction
  • Dimensions of Play in the Literature of Samuel Beckett
  • Maureen Howard
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Leonard Michaels
• Beckett, Samuel (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Endgame
    • Endgame
    • Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study
    • The Theatre of the Absurd
    • Hamm and Clov's Relationship in Endgame
    • Ending the Waiting Game: A Reading of Beckett's 'Endgame'
    • Jack MacGowran with Richard Toscan (interview date July-September 1973)
    • The Making of Modern Drama
    • Endgame
    • Just Play: Beckett's Theater
    • Beckett's Use of Narrative in Endgame
    • Endgame
    • Endgame
    • The Theme of Adoption in Endgame
    • Beckett's Use of Space in Endgame
  • Further Reading
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 14)
  • Introduction
  • Black Humor: The Pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett
  • The Artist as Fiction: An Aesthetics of Failure in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
  • Beckett Piece by Piece
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Books Considered: 'Collected Poems in English and French'
  • Samuel Beckett: Bible Reader
  • Winnie's Golden Treasury: The Use of Quotation in 'Happy Days'
• Beckett, Samuel (Vol. 18)
  • Introduction
  • Jean-Jacques Mayoux
  • Beckett's Didi and Gogo, Hamm and Clov
  • Self-Performing Voices: Mind, Memory and Time in Beckett's Drama
  • Looking for Beckett's Lost Ones
  • Why Beckett's 'Enough' Is More or Less Enough
• Beckett, Samuel (Drama Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism: General Commentary
    • The Theatre of Samuel Beckett
    • Reflections on Samuel Beckett's Plays
    • Existence on Stage: Samuel Beckett
    • Play and Player in the Plays of Samuel Beckett
    • ‘What's It Meant to Mean?’ An Approach to Beckett's Theatre
    • ‘What? Where?’ Presence and Repetition in Beckett's Theatre
    • Dead Heads: Damnation-Narration in the ‘Dramaticules.’
    • Opening Lines: Reading Beckett Backwards
    • Beckett and the Modern/Postmodern Debate
    • ‘The Rapture of Vertigo’: Beckett's Turning-Point
    • Beckett Out of His Mind: The Theatre of the Absurd
  • Criticism: En Attendant Godot (Waiting For Godot)
    • Drama Stripped for Inaction: Beckett's Godot
    • The Biblical Subtext in Beckett's Waiting for Godot
  • Criticism: Fin De Partie (Endgame)
    • Samuel Beckett's Endgame
  • Criticism: Spiel (Play)
  • That Time
  • Freedom and Cultural Location in Beckett's Eleuthéria
  • Further Reading
• Beckett, Samuel (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Paf, Hop, Bing and Ping
    • The Short Fiction
    • The Turning Point at Last: Beckett's ‘First Love’ There is a Choice of Images
    • Sublime Supplements: Beckett and the ‘Fizzling Out’ of Meaning
    • Joyce, Beckett, and the Short Story in Ireland
    • Beckett, Joyce, and Irish Writing: The Example of Beckett's ‘Dubliners’ Story
    • Speaking the Same Language: Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida and Vice Versa
    • Nothing Doing: The Repudiation of Action in Beckett's More Pricks than Kicks
    • From Unabandoned Works Samuel Beckett's Short Prose
    • Playing with the Cries
    • An Interpretive Dialogue: Beckett's ‘First Love’ and Bakhtin's Categories of Meaning
    • Beckett's ‘First Love’ and Cynical Philosophy
    • A Psychoanalytical Approach to Beckett's ‘First Love’
    • ‘The Existence I Ascribe’: Memory, Invention, and Autobiography in Beckett's Fiction
    • Beckett and the Apophatic in Selected Shorter Texts
    • ‘Echo's Bones’ and Beckett's Disembodied Voices
    • The Shared Aesthetic of Jack Yeats and Beckett: More Pricks than Kicks
    • Beckett and the Joycean Short Story
    • The ‘Moreness’ or ‘Lessness’ of ‘Natural’ Narratology: Samuel Beckett's ‘Lessness’ Reconsidered
  • Further Reading
• Beckett, Samuel (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Self-Translation as Self-Confrontation: Beckett's Mercier et/and Camier
    • An Endgame of Aesthetics: Beckett as Essayist
    • The Pornographic Imagination in All Strange Away.
    • Disconnected Voices, Displaced Bodies: The Dismembered Couple in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days, and Play
    • Beckett's Dream: More Niente than Bel
    • Enduring Recurrence: Samuel Beckett's Nihilistic Poetics
    • Translating Beckett's Translations
    • Shapes of Suffering: Image/Narrative/Impromptu in Beckett's Ohio Impromptu
    • The Chess Metaphor in Samuel Beckett's Endgame
    • Matters of Memory in Krapp's Last Tape and Not I.
    • Shakespeare and Beckett Revisited: A Phenomenology of Theater
    • Happy Days: Beckett's Rescript of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
    • Beckett's Play, in extensor.
    • ‘Ways of Being We’: The Subject as Method, Method as Ritual in Watt.
    • Placing the Unplaceable: The Dilemmas of Samuel Beckett's Fiction
    • Beckett's Measures: Principles of Pleasure in Molloy and First Love
  • Further Reading