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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Beckett's Choice | 1 | |
Ch. I | Entering the Literary Field | 10 |
Joyce and Proust: Involuntary Epics | 10 | |
"It Is Not": Juxtaposition and Ethical Judgment in "Dante and the Lobster" | 17 | |
Versions of Modernism | 24 | |
Ch. II | Contact with the Outside World | 28 |
Contesting "Social Reality" | 28 | |
"Contact with Outer Reality" in Murphy | 32 | |
Watt: Novel of Resistance or Accident of War? | 41 | |
Ch. III | Rewriting Modernism in the Nouvelles | 53 |
Primitivism in the Tone of Polite Conversation | 53 | |
Writing and Begging in "The End" | 56 | |
From the Metropolis to the "Text" | 64 | |
Author or Writing Subject? Beckett and Postmodern Fiction | 73 | |
Ch. IV | Molloy (one): Molloy, the Subject | 83 |
Molloy's Class Consciousness | 83 | |
The Production of the Story | 88 | |
Molloy and the Police | 91 | |
Subjectivity as a Modernist Universal | 97 | |
Ch. V | Molloy (two): Moran, and Agent | 102 |
The Agent as Storyteller | 102 | |
"Strong Enough at Last to Act No More" | 107 | |
The Terms of the Story: Agent, Voice, Purpose | 110 | |
Structure without Agents: Beckett and the Postwar Critique of Narrative | 116 | |
Ch. VI | A Contest of Nightmares: The Unnamable and 1984 | 124 |
"Incomprehensible Uneasiness" in the Void | 124 | |
The Flaneur in a Jar | 131 | |
The Reinvention of the New and the Aesthetic of Failure | 137 | |
Nightmare of Commitment: Orwell's "Inside the Whale" and 1984 | 149 | |
Epilogue: Engagement, Ecriture, Autonomy: The Displacement of Politics in Postwar Critical Theory | 161 | |
Notes | 169 | |
Works Cited | 185 | |
Index | 191 |
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