Samuel Beckett: humanistic perspectives

(print) x, 217 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Based on the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the College of Humanities of the Ohio State University, held May 7-9, 1981Preface ix -- Beckett's Theater Resonance 3 Ruby Cohn -- Beckett's "Bits of Pipe" 16 James Knowlson -- Beckett's Modernity and Medieval Affinities 26 Edith Kern -- Beckett's English 36 Richard N. Coe -- Unreliable Narrative in Murphy 58 Rubin Rabinovitz -- The Harpooned Notebook: Malone Dies and the Conventions of Intercalated Narrative 71 H. Porter Abbott -- Wittgenstein, Heidegger, the Unnamable, and Some Thoughts on the Status of Voice in Fiction 80 Allen Thiher -- Neglected Biblical Allusions in Beckett's Plays: "Mother Pegg" Once More 91 Kristin Morrison -- Qu'est-ce qui arrive? Some Structural Comparisons of Beckett's Plays and Noh 99 Yasunari Takahashi -- Fiction as Composing Process : How It Is 107 Frederik N. Smith -- "Syntax Upended in Opposite Corners" : Alterations in Beckett's Linguistic Theories 122 Judith E. Dearlove -- Film and Formal Integrity 129 S. E. Gontarski -- Come and Go : A Criticule 137 Hersh Zeifman -- The Lost Ones : A Myth of Human History and Destiny 145 Antoni Libera -- The Company Beckett Keeps : The Shape of Memory and One Fablist's Decay of Lying 157 Enoch Brater -- Beckett, Proust, and Burroughs, and the Perils of "Image Warfare" 172 Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Appendix : The Ohio Impromptu Holograph and Typescripts 189 -- Notes on the Contributors 209 -- Indexes 21