Samuel Beckett now
Subtitle: critical approaches to his novels, poetry, and plays.
By: Edited and with an introd. by Melvin J. Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Melvin J., ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-  -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
With the exception of three essays, an earlier form of this book appeared in French as Configuration critique de Samuel Beckett.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by M. J. Friedman.; title: The elusive ego: Beckett's M's, by F. J. Hoffman.; title: Robbe-Grillet as a critic of Samuel Beckett, by B. Morrissette.; title: The strange world of Beckett's "grands articulés," by G. Brée.; title: Black humor: the pockets of Lemuel Gulliver and Samuel Beckett, by E. Kern.; title: Beckettian paradox: who is telling the truth? By R. Federman.; title: Adventures of the first person, by R. Champigny.; title: Molloy or the quest for meaninglessness: a global interpretation, by D. Hayman.; title: Interpreting Molloy, by J. Fletcher.; title: A poet's initiation, by L. E. Harvey.; title: The laughter of sad Samuel Beckett, by R. Cohn.; title: Beckett's metaphysics of choiceless awareness, by R. Lamont.; title: Samuel Beckett: a checklist of criticism, by J. R. Bryer (p. 219-259)