Deleuze and Beckett [Hardcover]

Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, and stage, film and television work.

Introduction; S. E. Wilmer and Audron? }ukauskait?
PART I: DIFFERENCE, BECOMING, MULTIPLICITY
1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze; Anthony Uhlmann
2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze; S. E. Gontarski
3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible; Audron? }ukauskait?
PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIALITY
4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett ' 's Gallery of
Moribunds; Ben Keatinge
5. ' 'Till ooze again and on ' ': Textual Desire and the Subject ' 's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze,
Lacan); Isabelle Ost
6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett ' 's Sociendum; Timothy S. Murphy
PART III: SPACE, TIME AND MEMORY
7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson; David Addyman
8. The Problem of the Any-space-whatever between Deleuze ' 's Cinema and Beckett ' 's Prose; Garin Dowd
9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan ' 's Krapp ' 's Last Tape and Steenbeckett; Colin Gardner
PART IV: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinker; Ruben Borg
11. A Crystal-theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre ' 's Crystalline Potential; Daniel Koczy
12. ' 'I switch off ' ': Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event; Arka Chattopadhyay
Index

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