Beckett and Phenomenology Book

Acknowledgements ix

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction Ulrika Maude Matthew Feldman 1

Part I Beckett and Phenomenology

1 'But What Was this Pursuit of Meaning, in this Indifference to Meaning?': Beckett, Husserl, Sartre and 'Meaning Creation' Matthew Feldman 13

2 Phenomenologies of the Nothing: Democritus, Heidegger, Beckett Shane Weller 39

3 Beckett and Sartre: The Nauseous Character of All Flesh Steven Connor 56

4 'Material of a Strictly Peculiar Order': Beckett, Merleau-Ponty and Perception Ulrika Maude 77

Part II Beckett's Phenomenologies

5 Between Art-world and Life-world: Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women Mark Nixon 97

6 Murphydurke, or towards a Phenomenology of Immaturity (Reading Murphy with Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke) Jean-Michel Rabaté 109

7 Bodily Histories: Beckett and the Phenomenological Approach to the Other Steven Matthews 128

8 What Remains of Beckett: Evasion and History Daniel Katz 144

9 Beckett's Ghost Dramas: Monitoring a Phenomenology of Sleep Paul Sheehan 158

10 Living the Unnamable: Towards a Phenomenology of Reading Paul Stewart 177

11 The 'Distinct Context of Relevant Knowledge': Samuel Beckett's 'Yellow' and the Phenomenology of Annotation Chris Ackerley 194

Index 210