Historicising Beckett

* Historicising Beckett / Issues of Performance Beckett dans l'histoire / En jouant Beckett.
Edited by Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans, Dirk Van Hulle, Danièle de Ruyter.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. (Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 15)
ISBN: 90-420-1767-8 Bound Euro 80,-/US $ 100.-
Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=BECKETT+15

Table of Contents / Table des matières :
Introduction/Avant-propos
Announcement/Annonce

PART 1: Historicising Beckett
Seán KENNEDY: Introduction to Historicising Beckett
Sinéad MOONEY: Kicking against the Thermolaters: Beckett's Recent Irish Poetry
David A. HATCH: Beckett in Transition: Three Dialogues, Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic Debate
Rina KIM: Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing
Patrick BIXBY: Watt Kind of Man are you? Beckettian Anthropology, Cultural Authenticity, and Irish Identity
Mark QUIGLEY: Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity
James MCNAUGHTON: Beckett, German Fascism, and History: The Futility of Protest
Seán KENNEDY: Cultural Memory in Mercier and Camier: The Fate of Noel Lemass

PART 2: Performing Beckett
Takeshi KAWASHIMA: The Resistance of Seeing in Beckett's Drama: Self-Perception and Becoming Imperceptible
Antje DIEDRICH: Performance as Rehearsal: George Tabori's Staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame
Julie CAMPBELL: The Entrapment of the Female Body in Beckett's Plays in Relation to Jung's Third Tavistock Lecture
Dimitri SOENEN : La résistance des restes : l'appartenance médiatique' des Shorter Plays'
Angela MOORJANI: Directing or In-Directing Beckett: Or What Is Wrong with Catastrophe's Director?
Christina ADAMOU: What Where Revisited: Answering the Question
Juliette Taylor: Pidgin Bullskritt: The Performance of France in Beckett's Trilogy
Thomas MANSELL: Different Music: Beckett's Theatrical Conduct
Catherine LAWS: Beckett and Kurtág.

PART 3: The Child in Beckett's Work
Daniela CASELLI: Introduction
Stephen THOMSON: It's not my Fault Sir: The Child, Presence and Stage Space in Beckett's Theatre
Daniela CASELLI: Tiny Little Things in Beckett's Company
Jonathan BIGNELL: How to Watch Television? Pedagogy and Paedocracy in Beckett's Television Plays
PART 4: Free Space
Diane LÜSCHER-MORATA: It is not me. From a refusal to speak of oneself to X, paradigm of human kind
Spyridoula ATHANASOPOULOU-KYPRIOU: Not I and/or the Art of Living
Geoff HAMILTON: Annihilating all that's made. Beckett's Molloy and The Pastoral Tradition
Matthew James VECHINSKI: I could not cling to it: Potentiality in L'Innommable and The Unnamable A Dual-Language Study
Davyd MELNYK: Never Been Properly Jung.
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