Beckett's Proust/Deleuze's Proust Book

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xiv

Introduction Margaret Topping Mary Bryden 1

Part I Reading Encounters 11

1 The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze) Mary Bryden 13

2 The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiotics and Proust Christopher M. Drohan 26

3 Different Essences and Essential Differences: Proust versus Deleuze Erika Fülöp 39

4 Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2 joe Hughes 47

5 Proust/Deleuze; Mnemosyne, Goddess or Factory? Philippe Mengue Mary Bryden 58

6 Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature Anthony Uhlmann 73

Part II Visual, Cinematic and Sonic Encounters 87

7 Apprenticeship, Philosophy, and the 'Secret Pressures of the Work of Art' in Deleuze, Beckett, Proust and Ruiz; or Remaking the Recherche Garin Dowd 89

8 Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton Patrick ffrench 104

9 'Staring Sightlessly': Proust's Presence in Beckett's Absence Clark Lunberry 117

10 Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett Franz Michael Maier 128

11 The Long and the Short of it… Moving Images in Proust and Beckett Carol J. Murphy 136

12 The Gift of Time: Reading Proust Reading Deleuze Reading Proust Jim Reid 155

Part III Bodily Encounters 169

13 Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett Jennifer M. Jeffers 171

14 Coldness and Cruelty as Performance in Deleuze's Proust Ian Pace 183

15 Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la recherche du temps perdu Margaret Topping 199

16 Murphy's Madeleine Adam A. Watt 215

Epilogue: An Imaginary Encounter between Proust,Beckett and Deleuze 227

17 …Proust…Beckett…Deleuze…: a Quad Regained Jérôme Comette 229

References 237

Index 244