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Acknowledgments ix

Notes on Contributors x

Critical Foreword: Beckett and Death Steven Barfield Philip Tew 1

Introduction: "Strange Exalted Death!" Disinterring Beckett and Death Matthew Feldman 9

1 "Writing Myself into the Ground": Textual Existence and Death in Beckett Mark Nixon 22

2 "Orgy of False Being Life in Common": Beckett and the Politics of Death Shane Weller 31

3 "O Death Where Is Thy Sting?" Finding Words for the Big Ideas Sean Lawlor 50

4 Beckett, Augustine, and the Rhetoric of Dying Elizabeth Barry 72

5 Inane Space and Lively Place in Beckett's Forties Fiction David Addyman 89

6 Beckett's Unholy Dying: From Malone Dies to The Unnamable Erik Tonning 106

7 Beckett's Amnesiacs, Neuropsychology, and Temporal Moribundity Peter Fifield 128

8 "A Voice Comes to One in the Dark. Imagine": Radio, the Listener, and the Dark Comedy of All That Fall Julie Campbell 147

9 Sterile Reproduction: Beckett's Death of the Species and Fictional Regeneration Paul Stewart 169

10 Beckett's Late Style Steven Matthews 188

Afterword: Samuel Beckett's Cemeteries Chris Ackerley 206

Index 223