Samuel Beckett: The Art Of Rhetoric (north Carolina Studies In The Romance Languages And Literatures)

Collected essays from a symposium held in April 1974, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this volume analyzes Beckett's philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and novels. Cover SAMUEL BECKETT THE ART OF RHETORIC Title Copyright CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. ON BECKETT'S PHILOSOPHY 1. Being, Thinking, Telling, and Loving: The Couple in Beckett's Fiction 2. Samuel Beckett and Cartesian Emblems II. ON BECKETT'S RHETORIC 1. Warming Up for My Last Soliloquy 2. Samuel Beckett: The Liar's Paradox III. ON BECKETT'S POETRY 1. Introductory Notes to Beckett's Poetry 2. The Bawds of Euphony: Images of Women in Beckett's Early Poems 3. From Poetics to Anti-poetics 4. Echo's Bones: Starting Points for Beckett IV. ON BECKETT'S NOVELS 1. Murphy, or the Beginning of an Esthetic of Monstrosity 2. Statistics on Proper Names in Murphy 3. The Addenda to Samuel Beckett's Watt 4. A Mythic Reading of Molloy 5. The Couples in Comment c'est 6. How it is V. WORKING WITH BECKETT Back Cover A collection of essays from a symposium held in April 1974, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this volume analyses Beckett's philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and novels.