"On Beckett: Essays and Criticism" is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
"On Beckett: Essays and Criticism" is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
S. E. Gontarski is a writer, scholar and director, at whose request Samuel Beckett wrote the short play “Ohio Impromptu” (1981). Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, where he specializes in twentieth-century Irish studies, in British, US and European modernism, and in performance theory.
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The Essential Beckett: A Preface to the Second Edition – S. E. Gontarski A Beckett Chronology Acknowledgments Crritics and Crriticism: “Getting Known”– introduction by S. E. Gontarski PRELIMINARIES: Beckett and “Merlin” – Richard W. Seaver Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts: The Embarrassment of Allegory – Dougald McMillan When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett – Wolfgang Iser THE PAGE: “Murphy” and the Uses of Repetition – Rubin Rabinovitz “Watt” – Lawrence E. Harvey “Mercier and Camier”: Narration, Dante, and the Couple – Eric P. Levy Molloy’s Silence – Georges Bataille Where Now? Who Now? – Maurice Blanchot The Voice and Its Words: “How It Is”– J. E. Dearlove The Unnamable’s First Voice? – Chris Ackerley Between Verse and Prose: Beckett and the New Poetry – Marjorie Perloff “Worstward Ho” – Dougald McMillan THE STAGE: MacGowran on Beckett – interview by Richard Toscan Blin on Beckett – interview by Tom Bishop Working with Beckett – Alan Schneider Notes from the Underground: “Waiting for Godot” and “Endgame” – Herbert Blau Beckett Directs “Godot” – Walter D. Asmus Beckett Directs: “Endgame” and “Krapp’s Last Tape” – Ruby Cohn Literary Allusions in “Happy Days” – S. E. Gontarski Counterpoint, Absence, and the Medium in Beckett’s “Not I” – Paul Lawley Rehearsal Notes for the German Premiere of Beckett’s “That Time” and “Footfalls” – Walter D. Asmus “Footfalls” – James Knowlson Samuel Beckett and the Art of Radio – Martin Esslin Light, Sound, Movement, and Action in Beckett’s “Rockaby” – Enoch Brater Beckett’s “Ohio Impromptu”: A View from the Isle of Swans – Pierre Astier “Quad” and “Catastrophe” – S. E. Gontarski CODA: Burroughs with Beckett in Berlin – edited by Victor Bockris Notes on Contributors
The Essential Beckett: A Preface to the Second Edition – S. E. Gontarski A Beckett Chronology Acknowledgments Crritics and Crriticism: “Getting Known”– introduction by S. E. Gontarski PRELIMINARIES: Beckett and “Merlin” – Richard W. Seaver Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts: The Embarrassment of Allegory – Dougald McMillan When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett – Wolfgang Iser THE PAGE: “Murphy” and the Uses of Repetition – Rubin Rabinovitz “Watt” – Lawrence E. Harvey “Mercier and Camier”: Narration, Dante, and the Couple – Eric P. Levy Molloy’s Silence – Georges Bataille Where Now? Who Now? – Maurice Blanchot The Voice and Its Words: “How It Is”– J. E. Dearlove The Unnamable’s First Voice? – Chris Ackerley Between Verse and Prose: Beckett and the New Poetry – Marjorie Perloff “Worstward Ho” – Dougald McMillan THE STAGE: MacGowran on Beckett – interview by Richard Toscan Blin on Beckett – interview by Tom Bishop Working with Beckett – Alan Schneider Notes from the Underground: “Waiting for Godot” and “Endgame” – Herbert Blau Beckett Directs “Godot” – Walter D. Asmus Beckett Directs: “Endgame” and “Krapp’s Last Tape” – Ruby Cohn Literary Allusions in “Happy Days” – S. E. Gontarski Counterpoint, Absence, and the Medium in Beckett’s “Not I” – Paul Lawley Rehearsal Notes for the German Premiere of Beckett’s “That Time” and “Footfalls” – Walter D. Asmus “Footfalls” – James Knowlson Samuel Beckett and the Art of Radio – Martin Esslin Light, Sound, Movement, and Action in Beckett’s “Rockaby” – Enoch Brater Beckett’s “Ohio Impromptu”: A View from the Isle of Swans – Pierre Astier “Quad” and “Catastrophe” – S. E. Gontarski CODA: Burroughs with Beckett in Berlin – edited by Victor Bockris Notes on Contributors
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