Early Modern Beckett / Beckett et le début de l’ère moderne

"Filled with a number of surprising observations, interpretative gestures, and previously unexplored connections […] Fresh insights and new interpretive encounters […] There is much to learn from this volume, while inspiring groundwork is laid for what are sure to be exciting new paths in Beckett scholarship." – Jacob Hovind, Towson University

• Early Modern Beckett/Beckett et le début de l’ère moderneIntroduction/Avant-proposI. In Dialogue with Dramatists and Writers/En dialogue avec des auteurs dramatiques et des écrivainsCarla Taban: Le Molière de BeckettAngela Moorjani: Beckett’s Racinian Fictions: “Racine and the Modern Novel” RevisitedDanièle de Ruyter: Fascination de la tragédie Racinienne: résonances dans Oh les beaux joursArka Chattopadhyay: “Worst In Need Of Worse”: King Lear, Worstward Ho and the Trajectory of WorseningJulie Campbell: Allegories of Clarity and Obscurity: Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Beckett’s MolloySeán Kennedy: Edmund Spenser, Famine Memory and the Discontents of Humanism in EndgameMelanie Foehn: A Rhetoric of Discontinuity: On Stylistic Parallels between Pascal’s Pensées and Samuel Beckett’s L’InnommableII. In Dialogue with Philosophers and Artists/En dialogue avec des philosophes et des artistesYoshiyuki Inoue: Cartesian Mechanics in Beckett’s Fin de PartieLayla M. Roesler: En compagnie d’une métaphysique parodique: Beckett lecteur de Descartes reduxEverett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx’s Ethics: “…my Geulincx could only be a literary fantasia”Naoya Mori: Beckett’s Faint Cries: Leibniz’s petites perceptions in First Love and Malone DiesClaire Lozier: Présence de la sculpture funéraire des débuts de l’époque moderne dans l’œuvre narrative de Samuel Beckett: du motif artistique religieux à sa laïcisation scripturaleJoanne Shaw: Light and Darkness in Elsheimer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and BeckettBeckett Between/Beckett entre deuxIntroductionDúnlaith Bird: Light, Landscape and BeckettJames Williams: Beckett between the Words: Punctuation and the Body in the English ProseAlys Moody: The Non-Lieu of Hunger: Post-war Beckett and the Genealogies of StarvationDirk Van Hulle: The Extended Mind and Multiple Drafts: Beckett’s Models of the Mind and the Postcognitivist ParadigmEverett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx’s Metaphysics: “Without knowing why exactly”John Wall: “L’au-delà du dehors-dedans”: Paradox, Space and Movement in BeckettLea Sinoimeri: “Ill-Told Ill-Heard”: Aurality and Reading in Comment c’est/How It IsKarine Germoni and Pascale Sardin: Tensions of the In-Between: Rhythm, Tonelessness and Lyricism in Fin de partie/EndgameIain Baily: Beckett, Bilingualism and the BibleGarin Dowd: The Proxemics of “Neither”Contributors/Auteurs