Beckett Writing Beckett : the Author in the Autograph /

Suppose that, before he is writing fiction, before he is writing drama, before he is writing any of the autonomous, highly polished pieces that make up his life work, Beckett is writing Beckett. What follows from this? In Beckett Writing Beckett, H. Porter Abbott argues that, by the time he had writ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abbott, H. Porter (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2019]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv415cb
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • One. Narratricide
  • Two. Beckett and Postmodernism
  • Three. The Wild Beast of Earnestness
  • Four. Engendering Krapp
  • Five. Original Mud
  • Six. Writing Scripts
  • Seven. Political Beckett
  • Eight. Supernatural Beckett
  • Nine. The Reader in the Autograph
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Index