Beckett, Joyce and the art of the negative
By: edited by Colleen Jaurretche.
Contributors: Jaurretche, Colleen.
Series: European Joyce studies -- 16
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, -- 1906- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Joyce, James, -- 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Negativism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Colleen Jaurretche; title: Joyce's aesthetic of the double negative and his encounters with Homer's Odyssey / Keri Elizabeth Ames; title: "Nichtsnichtsundnichts": Beckett's and Joyce's transtextual undoings / Dirk Van Hulle; title: The unnamable: degenerative dialogue / Russell Kilbourn; title: Mingled Flesh / Ulrika Maude; title: Beckett's purgatories / John L. Murphy; title: The uncanny in Beckett / Lois Oppenheim; title: Death sentences: silence, colonial memory and the voice of the dead in Dubliners / Nels Pearson; title: Something for Nothing: Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women / John Pilling; title: Joyce's negative esthetics / Jean-Michel Rabaté; title: The Joyce of impossibilities / Fritz Senn; title: "Wanting in Inanity": negativity, language and "God" in Beckett / Asja Szafraniec; title: From ideology of loss to aesthetics of absence: the endgame in Beckett's The Lost Ones / Yuan Yuan.