Re--Joyce'n Beckett

427 Pages·1992·1.04 MB·English

by  Phyllis Carey

title: Re--Joyce'n Beckett
author: Carey, Phyllis.
publisher: Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0823213412
print isbn13: 9780823213412
ebook isbn13: 9780585125428
language: English
English literature--Irish authors--History
and criticism, English literature--20th
century--History and criticism, Joyce,
subject James,--1882-1941--Criticism and
interpretation, Beckett, Samuel,--1906- --
Criticism and interpretation, Ireland--
Intellectual life--
publication date: 1992
lcc: PR8754.R4 1992eb
ddc: 820.9/9415/0904
English literature--Irish authors--History
and criticism, English literature--20th
century--History and criticism, Joyce,
subject: James,--1882-1941--Criticism and
interpretation, Beckett, Samuel,--1906- --
Criticism and interpretation, Ireland--
Intellectual life--
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Re: Joyce'n Beckett
edited by
Phyllis Carey and Ed Jewinski
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
N Y
EW ORK
1992
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© Copyright 1992 by Fordham University
All rights reserved.
LC 91-31853
ISBN 0-8232-1340-4 (cloth)
ISBN 0-8232-1341-2 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Re: Joyce'n Beckett / edited by Phyllis Carey and Ed Jewinski.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8232-1340-4 (cloth) ISBN 0-8232-1341-2 (pbk.)
1. English literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticism.
2. English literature20th centuryHistory and criticism.
3. Joyce, James, 1882-1941Criticism and interpretation.
4. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989Criticism and interpretation.
5. IrelandIntellectual life20th century. 6. Ireland in
literature. I. Carey, Phyllis. II. Jewinski, Ed, 1948-
III. Title: ReJoyce and Beckett.
PR8754.R4 1991
820.9'9415'0904dc20 91-31853
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi
1. R ichard Ellmann's James Joyce and Deirdre Bair's 1
Samuel Beckett: A Biography: The Triumphs and Trials of
Literary Biography
Melvin J. Friedman
2. Joyce, Beckett, and the Short Story in Ireland 20
John Fletcher
3. Beckett, Joyce, and Irish Writing: The Example-of 31
Beckett's "Dubliners" Story
John P. Harrington
4. "For This Relief Much Thanks": Leopold Bloom and 43
Beckett's Use of Allusion
David Cohen
5. Beckett Re-Joycing: Words and Music 50
James Acheson
6. "The More Joyce Knew the More He Could" and "More 61
Than I Could": Theology and Fictional Technique in
Joyce and Beckett
Alan S. Loxterman
7. Textually Uninhibited: The Playfulness of Joyce and 83
Beckett
Michael Patrick Gillespie
8. Stephen Dedalus, Belacqua Shuah, and Dante's Pietà 104
Phyllis Carey
9. Krapping Out: Images of Flow and Elimination as 117
Creation in Joyce and Beckett
Susan Brienza
10. Authorship, Authority, and Self-Reference in Joyce 147
and Beckett
Steven Connor
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11. James Joyce and Samuel Beckett: From Epiphany to 160
Anti-Epiphany
Ed Jewinski
12. Beckett et Joyce et Beckett-esque: A One-Act Play 175
Denis Regan
13. Joyce and Beckett: A Preliminary Checklist of 185
Publications
John P. Harrington
About the Contributors 194
Index 197
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Acknowledgments
The editors would like to express their gratitude in particular to Mount
Mary College and Wilfrid Laurier University for 1989 mini grants to
aid the editors in the preparation of the final copy of this volume.
We would also like to thank all the contributors for their patience,
understanding, cooperation, and good suggestions.
Special thanks go to Joanne Buchan for typing and retyping material,
to John Harrington for compiling the bibliography, and to Paul Salvini
for assisting with the computer at two in the morning.
For the love and support constantly received, Phyllis Carey thanks her
husband, Patrick, and her sons, Brian and Michael, and Ed Jewinski
thanks his wife, Judi, and his daughters, Nicole and Danielle.
Finally, this book is dedicated to Judi Jewinski and Patrick Carey.
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Abbreviations
Samuel Beckett
The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett. New York:
Grove, 1970.
Cas Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces
HD Happy Days
HII How It Is
K Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic
Pieces
MD Malone Dies
MO Molloy
MPTK More Pricks Than Kicks
MU Murphy
PR Proust
STFN Stories and Texts for Nothing
UN The Unnamable
W Watt
WG Waiting for Godot
The following Beckett texts are not part of the 1970
Collected Works; Grove Press editions, however,
have been used for citations.
C Company, 1980
DisjectaDisjecta, 1984
ISIS Ill Seen Ill Said, 1981
LO The Lost Ones, 1972
TN Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The
Unnamable, 1955