Historicising Beckett / Issues of Performance: Beckett dans l’histoire / En jouant Beckett

by Marius Buning (Editor), Matthijs Engelberts (Editor), Sjef Houppermans (Editor)

Table of Contents / Table des matières Introduction/Avant-propos Announcement/Annonce PART 1: “Historicising Beckett” Seán Introduction to “Historicising Beckett” Sinéad Kicking against the Beckett’s “Recent Irish Poetry” David A. Beckett in Three Dialogues, Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic Debate Rina Severing Connections with Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett’s Writing Patrick Watt Kind of Man are you? Beckettian Anthropology, Cultural Authenticity, and Irish Identity Mark Unnaming the Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity James Beckett, German Fascism, and The Futility of Protest Seán Cultural Memory in Mercier and The Fate of Noel Lemass PART 2: Performing Beckett Takeshi The Resistance of Seeing in Beckett’s Self-Perception and Becoming Imperceptible Antje Performance as George Tabori’s Staging of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Endgame Julie The Entrapment of the Female Body in Beckett’s Plays in Relation to Jung’s Third Tavistock Lecture Dimitri SOENEN : La résistance des restes : l’appartenance ‘médiatique’ des ‘Shorter Plays’ Angela Directing or In-Directing Or What Is Wrong with Catastrophe’s Director? Christina What Where Answering the Question Juliette “Pidgin Bullskritt”: The Performance of France in Beckett’s Trilogy Thomas Different Beckett’s Theatrical Conduct Catherine Beckett and Kurtág. PART 3: The Child in Beckett’s Work Daniela Introduction Stephen “It’s not my Fault Sir”: The Child, Presence and Stage Space in Beckett’s Theatre Daniela Tiny Little Things in Beckett’s Company Jonathan How to Watch Television? Pedagogy and Paedocracy in Beckett’s Television Plays PART 4: Free Space Diane LÜ “It is not me”. From a refusal to speak of oneself to X, “paradigm of human kind” Spyridoula Not I and/or the Art of Living Geoff Annihilating all that’s made. Beckett’s Molloy and The Pastoral Tradition Matthew James “I could not cling to it”: Potentiality in L’Innommable and The Unnamable – A Dual-Language Study Davyd Never Been Properly Jung.

362 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005