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Contributors ix
Introduction Linda Ben-Zvi 3
Images. For Ruby Cohn
Still for Ruby Peter Gidal 15
Beckett the Tourist: Bamberg and Wurzburg James Knowlson 21
Thinking Through Beckett
Apnea and True Illusion: Breath(less) in Beckett Herbert Blau 35
From Contumacy to Shame: Reading Beckett's Testimonies with Agamben David Houston Jones 54
Projections: Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Not I as Autobiographies Carla Locatelli 68
"I Am Not a Philosopher" H. Porter Abbott 81
Recovering Beckett's Bergsonism S. E. Gontarski 93
"No Body Is at Rest": The Legacy of Leibniz's Force in Beckett's Oeuvre Naoya Mori 107
Shifting Perspectives
"Just Looking": Ne(i)ther-World Icons, Elsheimer Nocturnes, and Other Simultaneities in Beckett's Play Angela Moorjani 123
Beckett's Romanticism Enoch Brater 139
Film and Film: Beckett and Early Film Theory Matthijs Engelberts 152
Beckett's Theater: Embodying Alterity Anna McMullan 166
Beckett's Posture in the French Literary Field Jurgen Siess 177
TheSpear of Telephus in Krapp's Last Tape Irit Degani-Raz 190
Re-Figuring the Stage Body through the Mechanical Re-Production of Memory Antonia Rodriguez-Gago 202
Echoing Beckett
Words and Music, ... but the clouds..., and Yeats's "The Tower" Minako Okamuro 217
Beckett-Feldman-Johns Catherine Laws 230
Ontological Fear and Anxiety in the Theater of Beckett, Betsuyaku, and Pinter Mariko Hori Tanaka 246
The Midcentury Godot: Beckett and Saroyan Mary Bryden 259
Beckett, McLuhan, and Television: The Medium, the Message, and "the Mess" Linda Ben-Zvi 271
Beckett and Caryl Churchill along the Mobius Strip Elin Diamond 285
Beckett and Paul Auster: Fathers and Sons and the Creativity of Misreading Julie Campbell 299
Staging Sam: Beckett as Dramatic Character Hersh Zeifman 311
Index 319
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Kim Perron
reviewed Beckett at 100: Revolving It All on July 01, 2012
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All
Cronin is to be commended for providing an unmaudlin look at an artist's life which by all accounts is anything but. Beckett's various pains in the world - whether psychosomatic or real - are well-accounted for, and one cannot help but think that the shy and bitter recluse of Beckett was indeed reaching for a world in which he imagined some form of happiness for himself, but could not articulate it. Cronin (blessed with an excellent vocabulary which he uses to great effect to support the book but not cudgel the reader with, and whose favorite word seems to be "advert") takes the reader through the entire life and times, baffling and depressing as they may be, of Beckett, and one is challenged to keep pace and follow his various locales (Ireland, France, Germany, and the United States) and the various characters who enter into Beckett's milieux. Of particular interest to this reader is Beckett's entrée into the circle of Joyce acolytes. While at times dry and abstract in a Schillervision sort of way (leaving the reader puzzling at the meaning of it all), the book is a hearty treatise on Beckett's life and works and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the inscrutable expatriate author of books, plays, and other dramatic works often featuring abstractions such as people buried up to their necks or talking mouths.
A worthwhile read, now over, go on nohow to your next book.
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