Ten ways of thinking about Samuel Beckett : the falsetto of reason / Enoch Brater.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-188) and index.

In this volume of essays addressing the author's drama, novels, short stories and poetry, renowned Beckett scholar Enoch Brater offers a variety of delightfully original, playful and intriguing studies of Beckett's work. For theatre audiences and Beckett readers it provides a fresh approach to this great writer.

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Cover; Contents; Preface: Beckett and a Way of Thinking; 1 Things to Ponder while Waiting for Godot; 2 From Dada to Didi: Beckett and the Art of His Century; 3 Beckett's Landscape: What There Is to Recognise; 4 Beckett's Shades of the Colour Grey; 5 The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage; 6 Beckett's Devious Interventions, or Fun with Cube Roots; 7 Beckett's (What?) Romanticism; 8 Beckett's 'Beckett': So Many Words for Silence; 9 'Traces Blurs Signs': Where Beckett Meets Ibsen; 10 Suitcases, Sand and Dry Goods.

Addendum: To What? The No-Thing That Knows No Name and the Empty Envelope Blissfully ReconsideredWorks Cited; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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