Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's decadent turn

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Cover Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Demonology, Sade-ism, and Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn: An Introduction PART ONE A Professional Life 1 Samuel Beckett and Lace Curtain Irish Modernisms 2 Publishing in America: Sam and Barney 3 Eleutheria: Samuel Beckett’s Suppressed Bohemian Manifesto PART TWO A Theatrical Life 4 Textual Aberrations, Ghost Texts, and the British Godot: A Saga of Censorship 5 “nothingness/in words enclose?”: Waiting for Godot 6 An End to Endings: Samuel Beckett’s End Game(s) 7 Samuel Beckett’s Art of Self-collaboration 8 Beckett’s Keyhole Art: Voyeurism, Schaulust, and the Perversions of Theater 9 “He wants to know if it hurts!”: The Body as Text in Samuel Beckett’s Theater PART THREE A Philosophical Life 10 Theoretical and Theatrical Intersections: Samuel Beckett, Herbert Blau, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Godot 11 Beckett and the Revisioning of Modernism(s): Molloy 12 A Sense of Unending: Fictions for the End of Time 13 The Death of Style: Samuel Beckett’s Art of Repetition, Pastiche, and Cutups Bibliography Index