Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP). He is also editor in chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. Van Hulle is the author of Textual Awareness, Manuscript Genetics: Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow and The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Stirrings Still' and 'what is the word'. His most recent publication is Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing.

'… provides a helpful introduction to key issues of the author's work.' J. S. Baggett, Choice

• 1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' John Pilling; 2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped Angela Moorjani; 3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' Peter Boxall; 4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett's cultural impact Rónán McDonald; 5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings Emilie Morin; 6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet Mark Nixon; 7. Beckett and late modernism Shane Weller; 8. Beckett's intertexts Anthony Uhlmann; 9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn Sam Slote; 10. Samuel Beckett and the 'idea' of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze S. E. Gontarski; 11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy Peter Fifield; 12. Love and lobsters: Beckett's meta-ethics Jean-Michael Rabaté; 13. Beckett, body and mind Ulrika Maude; 14. 'Humanity in ruins': Beckett and history Seán Kennedy.

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP). He is also editor in chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. Van Hulle is the author of Textual Awareness, Manuscript Genetics: Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow and The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Stirrings Still' and 'what is the word'. His most recent publication is Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing.

'… provides a helpful introduction to key issues of the author's work.' J. S. Baggett, Choice

• 1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' John Pilling; 2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped Angela Moorjani; 3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' Peter Boxall; 4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett's cultural impact Rónán McDonald; 5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings Emilie Morin; 6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet Mark Nixon; 7. Beckett and late modernism Shane Weller; 8. Beckett's intertexts Anthony Uhlmann; 9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn Sam Slote; 10. Samuel Beckett and the 'idea' of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze S. E. Gontarski; 11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy Peter Fifield; 12. Love and lobsters: Beckett's meta-ethics Jean-Michael Rabaté; 13. Beckett, body and mind Ulrika Maude; 14. 'Humanity in ruins': Beckett and history Seán Kennedy.

Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP). He is also editor in chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. Van Hulle is the author of Textual Awareness, Manuscript Genetics: Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow and The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Stirrings Still' and 'what is the word'. His most recent publication is Modern Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing.

'… provides a helpful introduction to key issues of the author's work.' J. S. Baggett, Choice

• 1. Early Beckett: 'the one looking through his fingers' John Pilling; 2. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: the novel reshaped Angela Moorjani; 3. Still stirrings: Beckett's prose from Texts for Nothing to 'Stirrings Still' Peter Boxall; 4. Waiting for Godot and Beckett's cultural impact Rónán McDonald; 5. Endgame and shorter plays: religious, political and other readings Emilie Morin; 6. Ruptures of the visual: Beckett as critic and poet Mark Nixon; 7. Beckett and late modernism Shane Weller; 8. Beckett's intertexts Anthony Uhlmann; 9. Bilingual Beckett: beyond the linguistic turn Sam Slote; 10. Samuel Beckett and the 'idea' of theatre: performance through Artaud and Deleuze S. E. Gontarski; 11. Samuel Beckett with, in and around philosophy Peter Fifield; 12. Love and lobsters: Beckett's meta-ethics Jean-Michael Rabaté; 13. Beckett, body and mind Ulrika Maude; 14. 'Humanity in ruins': Beckett and history Seán Kennedy.