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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Towards a Minoritarian Criticism - The Questions We Ask -- Part 1: Art and Aesthetics -- 1. 'Deux Besoins': Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetic Dilemma -- 2. 'Siege Laid Again': Arikha's Gaze, Beckett's Painted Stage -- 3. Convulsive Aesthetics: Beckett, Chaplin and Charcot -- 4. Pain Degree Zero -- Part 2: Fictions -- 5. Sexual Indifference in the Three Novels -- 6. A Neuropolitics of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's Three Novels -- 7. Evening, Night and Other Shades of Dark: Beckett's Short Prose -- Part 3: A European Context -- 8. French Beckett and French Literary Politics 1945-52 -- 9. Beckett/Sade: texts for nothing -- 10. Beckett's Masson: From Abstraction to Non-Relation -- 11. Beckett, Duthuit and Ongoing Dialo -- 12. Gloria SMH and Beckett's Linguistic Encryptions -- 13. 'I am writing a manifesto because I have nothing to say' (Soupault): Samuel Beckett and the Interwar Avant-Garde -- 14. Beckett and Contemporary French Literature -- Part 4: An Irish Context -- 15. The 'Irish' Translation of Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot -- 16. Odds, Ends, Beginnings: Samuel Beckett and Theatre Cultures in -- 17. 'Bid Us Sigh On from Day to Day': Beckett and the Irish Big House -- Part 5: Film, Radio and Television -- 18. A Womb with a View: Film as Regression Fantasy -- 19. 'The Sound Is Enough': Beckett's Radio Plays -- Part 6: Language/Writing -- 20. 'Was That a Point?': Beckett's Punctuation -- 21. Beckett's Unpublished Canon -- 22. Textual Scars: Beckett, Genetic Criticism and Textual Scholarship -- 23. Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the Subject, Subject to Reading -- Part 7: Philosophies -- 24. Beckett and Philosophy -- 25. 'Ruse a by': Watt, the Rupture of the Everyday and Transcendental -- 26. Beckett, Modernism and Christianity -- Part 8: Theatre and Performance -- 27. 'Oh Lovely Art': Beckett and Music -- 28. Victimised Actors and Despotic Directors: Clichés of Theatre at Stake -- 29. Staging the Modernist Monologue as Capable Negativity: Beckett's 'A Piece of Monologue' Between and Beyond Eliot and Joyce -- 30. Designing Beckett: Jocelyn Herbert's Contribution to Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Aesthetics -- 31. Dianoetic Laughter in Tragedy: Accepting Finitude - Beckett's Endgame -- 32. Performing the Formless -- Part 9: Global Beckett -- 33. 'Facing Other Windows': Beckett in Brazil -- 34. Beckett in Belgrade -- 35. 'Struggling With a Dead Language': Language of Others in All That Fall and the Japanese Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1960s -- Contributors -- Index A landmark collection showcasing the diversity of Samuel Beckett's creative outputThe 35 new and original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Beckett's work world-wide.As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; Fictions; European Context; Irish Context; Film, Radio & Television; Language/Writing; Philosophies; Theatre & Performance; Global Beckett. Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation
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