: critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
; Edited and with an introd. by Melvin J. Friedman
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 1970.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 275p
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
With the exception of three essays, an earlier form of this book appeared in French as Configuration critique de Samuel Beckett
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction, by M.J. Friedman.- The elusive ego: Beckett's M's, by F.J. Hoffman.- Robbe-Grillet as a critic of Samuel Beckett, by B. Morrissette.- The strange world of Beckett's "grands articules," by G. Bree.- Black humor: the pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett, by E. Kern.- Beckettian paradox: who is telling the truth? By R. Federman.- Adventures of the first person, by R. Champigny.- Molloy or the quest for meaninglessness: a global interpretation, by D. Hayman.- Interpreting Molloy, by J. Fletcher.- A poet's initiation, by L.E. Harvey.- The laughter of sad Samuel Beckett, by R. Cohn.- Beckett's metaphysics of choiceless awareness, by R. Lamont.- Samuel Beckett: a checklist of criticism, by J.R. Bryer (p. 219-259)
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Beckett, Samuel, 1906- - Criticism and interpretation