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Informationen zum Autor Daniela Caselli is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. Klappentext The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett's poetics through the notion of 'nothing', analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett's prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordTerry Eagleton, 'Nothing new'IntroductionDaniela Caselli, 'Beckett and nothing: trying to understand Beckett'1. John Pilling, 'On not being there: going on without in Beckett'2. Peter Boxall, 'Nothing of value: reading Beckett's negativity'3. Mladen Dolar, 'Nothing has changed'4. Stephen Thomson, '"A tangle of tatters": ghosts and the busy nothing in Footfalls5. Bill Prosser, 'Nothings in particular'6. Shane Weller, 'Unwords'7. Jonathan Bignell, 'Into the Void: Beckett's television plays and the idea of broadcasting'8. Derval Tubridy, 'Beckett, Feldman, Salcedo... Neither'9. Matthijs Engelberts, 'From Film to literature: theoretical debates and the critical erasure of Beckett's cinema' 10. Catherine Laws, 'Beckett and unheard sound'11. Russell Smith, 'It's nothing: Beckett and anxiety'12. Laura Salisbury, '"Something or nothing": Beckett and the matter of language'Coda, Enoch Brater, 'The no-thing that knows no name and the Beckett envelope, blissfully reconsidered'BibliographyIndex
