Samuel Beckett now
Subtitle: critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays
By: edited and with an introduction by Melvin J. Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Melvin J.
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: A Phoenix book
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-  -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: "Earlier versions of some of these essays appeared in the volume Configuration critique de Samuel Beckett."
"Samuel Beckett, a checklist of criticism, by Jackson R. Bryer": p. 219-259.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Friedman, M. J. Introduction.; value: Hoffman, F. J. The elusive ego.; value: Morrissette, B. Robbe-Grillet as a critic of Samuel Beckett.; value: Brée, G. The strange world of Beckett's "grands articulés."; value: Kern, E. Black humor, the pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett.; value: Federman, R. Beckettian paradox.; value: Champigny, R. Adventures of the first person.; value: Hayman, D. Molloy or the quest for meaninglessness.; value: Fletcher, J. Interpreting Molloy.; value: Harvey, L. E. A poet's initiation.; value: Cohn, R. The laughter of sad Sam Beckett.; value: Lamont, R. Beckett's metaphysics of choiceless awareness.; value: Appendix: Friedman, M. J. Samuel Beckett and his critics enter the 1970s.