Beckett in the Cultural Field / Beckett Dans le Champ Culturel

The thematic part of this volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui is devoted mainly to Beckett's texts of the forties and later, and particularly to those he composed after his adoption of the French language. The essays presented in this part of the current issue attempt to see Beckett as a writer among other authors with whom he connects or competes, to examine his relations with artists, whether Beckett stimulates them or is stimulated by them, and to define his 'posture' and his position in the cultural field. How does the budding francophone writer position himself in the cultural field during his difficult beginnings and after his first successes? How can he be situated in relation to the three cultures he is dealing with? What are the parallels between Beckett's own texts and those of other writers (literary and philosophical), but also between his work and the work of artists of the period? The ten essays in the free-space section of this volume also mainly concern his texts that were first written in French, and situate Beckett in relation to different topics, from Dante to the 'War on Terror.' Content: Cover Title Page Copyright Page TABLE OF CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIÈRES INTRODUCTION PART I: CONFRONTING THE ARTS, INVESTIGATING RECEPTION / CONFRONTER LES ARTS, ÉTUDIER LA RECEPTION 1. NOTHING DOING: Reflections on Samuel Beckett and American Conceptual Art 2. THE FIGURE IN THE LANDSCAPE IN JACK YEATS AND IN SAMUEL BECKETT 3. POROSITIES: Aesthetic Correlations between Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett 4. THE 'FREEDOM' OF SARTRE AND BECKETT: The Flies versus Eleutheria 5. ZONES OF INDETERMINATION: Beckett, Bergson, and the Monad of Murphy's Mind. PART II: ENTERING THE FIELD / ENTRER DANS LE CHAMP6. BECKETTS MOLLOY IN THE FRENCH CONTEXT 7. BECKETT AND THE BBC THIRD PROGRAMME 8. RECONFIGURATION DU CHAMP DES ÉTUDES BECKETTIENNES: Le règne du 'Beckett irlandais' FREE SPACE 9.""SPLITTING THE ROCKS"": Derek Mahon's Beckett 10. BECKETT'S FILM: A Polycentric Parodic Pictorial Parable for Perennial Paradoxes 11. MAPPING THE FUTURE: Endgame, Premediation, and the War on Terror 12. NO WAY OUT: The Effect of Surveillance in The Lost Ones 13. BECKETT'S HAPPY DAYS AND DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 10. 14. BETWEEN BEYONDS: Play's Urns and Their Exhabitants15. LE CHAOS: COMMENT C'EST 16. VOIX ET ILLIMITÉ DANS L'INNOMMABLE 17. ""I OPEN"": Narration in Samuel Beckett's Cascando 18. BECKETT'S BOOTS: The Crux of Meaning CONTRIBUTORS / AUTEURS.