Mary Bryden is Professor of French Literature at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation.

'Given the range of perspectives and the conspicuous erudition throughout the essays in this extraordinary collection, readers will surely never look at Beckett's animals - now more noticeable and memorable than ever before - or actual animals in the former way ever again.' William Hutchings, James Joyce Literary Supplement

• List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Mary Bryden; Part I. Animality: 1. Forms of weakness: animalisation in Kafka and Beckett Shane Weller; 2. Beckett, Coetzee, and animals Yoshiki Tajiri; 3. The Beckettian bestiary Mary Bryden; 4. 'Quite exceptionally anthropoid': species anxiety and metamorphosis in Beckett's humans and other animals David Wheatley; 5. An animal inside: Beckett/Leibniz's stone, animal, human, and the unborn Naoya Mori; 6. Pavlov's dogs and other animals in Samuel Beckett Ulrika Maude; 7. Little animals in the brain: Beckett's 'porteurs de la mémoire' Yoshiyuki Inoue; Part II. The Specificity of Animals: 8. 'Think, pig!': Beckett's animal philosophies Jean-Michel Rabaté; 9. Beckett's 'necessary' cat(s) Linda Ben-Zvi; 10. Making flies mean something Steven Connor; 11. 'Hooves!': the equine presence in Beckett Joseph Anderton; 12. The dancing bees in Samuel Beckett's Molloy: the rapture of unknowing Angela Moorjani; 13. Despised for their obviousness: Samuel Beckett's dogs Chris Ackerley; 14. Beckett and sheep Julie Campbell; 15. 'Eyes in each other's eyes': Beckett, Kleist, and the fencing bear Maximilian de Gaynesford; 16. Words without acts: Beckett's parrots Brigitte Le Juez.

Mary Bryden is Professor of French Literature at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation.

'Given the range of perspectives and the conspicuous erudition throughout the essays in this extraordinary collection, readers will surely never look at Beckett's animals - now more noticeable and memorable than ever before - or actual animals in the former way ever again.' William Hutchings, James Joyce Literary Supplement

• List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Mary Bryden; Part I. Animality: 1. Forms of weakness: animalisation in Kafka and Beckett Shane Weller; 2. Beckett, Coetzee, and animals Yoshiki Tajiri; 3. The Beckettian bestiary Mary Bryden; 4. 'Quite exceptionally anthropoid': species anxiety and metamorphosis in Beckett's humans and other animals David Wheatley; 5. An animal inside: Beckett/Leibniz's stone, animal, human, and the unborn Naoya Mori; 6. Pavlov's dogs and other animals in Samuel Beckett Ulrika Maude; 7. Little animals in the brain: Beckett's 'porteurs de la mémoire' Yoshiyuki Inoue; Part II. The Specificity of Animals: 8. 'Think, pig!': Beckett's animal philosophies Jean-Michel Rabaté; 9. Beckett's 'necessary' cat(s) Linda Ben-Zvi; 10. Making flies mean something Steven Connor; 11. 'Hooves!': the equine presence in Beckett Joseph Anderton; 12. The dancing bees in Samuel Beckett's Molloy: the rapture of unknowing Angela Moorjani; 13. Despised for their obviousness: Samuel Beckett's dogs Chris Ackerley; 14. Beckett and sheep Julie Campbell; 15. 'Eyes in each other's eyes': Beckett, Kleist, and the fencing bear Maximilian de Gaynesford; 16. Words without acts: Beckett's parrots Brigitte Le Juez.

Mary Bryden is Professor of French Literature at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation.

'Given the range of perspectives and the conspicuous erudition throughout the essays in this extraordinary collection, readers will surely never look at Beckett's animals - now more noticeable and memorable than ever before - or actual animals in the former way ever again.' William Hutchings, James Joyce Literary Supplement

• List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Mary Bryden; Part I. Animality: 1. Forms of weakness: animalisation in Kafka and Beckett Shane Weller; 2. Beckett, Coetzee, and animals Yoshiki Tajiri; 3. The Beckettian bestiary Mary Bryden; 4. 'Quite exceptionally anthropoid': species anxiety and metamorphosis in Beckett's humans and other animals David Wheatley; 5. An animal inside: Beckett/Leibniz's stone, animal, human, and the unborn Naoya Mori; 6. Pavlov's dogs and other animals in Samuel Beckett Ulrika Maude; 7. Little animals in the brain: Beckett's 'porteurs de la mémoire' Yoshiyuki Inoue; Part II. The Specificity of Animals: 8. 'Think, pig!': Beckett's animal philosophies Jean-Michel Rabaté; 9. Beckett's 'necessary' cat(s) Linda Ben-Zvi; 10. Making flies mean something Steven Connor; 11. 'Hooves!': the equine presence in Beckett Joseph Anderton; 12. The dancing bees in Samuel Beckett's Molloy: the rapture of unknowing Angela Moorjani; 13. Despised for their obviousness: Samuel Beckett's dogs Chris Ackerley; 14. Beckett and sheep Julie Campbell; 15. 'Eyes in each other's eyes': Beckett, Kleist, and the fencing bear Maximilian de Gaynesford; 16. Words without acts: Beckett's parrots Brigitte Le Juez.