This paper looks at some key moments in the Beckett oeuvre in which Dante appears. Traversing published and unpublished texts, the paper shows how initially Dante is a modernist auctoritas; later, we encounter the promise of keeping Dante ‘out of sight’; we are told of Belacqua’s foolish bequeathing of copies of the Comedy; and we witness lavish investments in Dantean loci communes giving very meagre literary returns. Dante, I contend, is a very good way to think of the relation between waste and function in Beckett: the examples provided in this study demonstrate the importance of the ambiguous relation between what is claimed to have been discarded, lost, or given away in a moment of folly and what is being made to work. The overall argum...
The purpose of the present research is to investigate the presence of Dante in four authors of the t...
A reflection on Dante and the literary canon may appear tautological since nowadays his belonging to...
Though Beckett is best known for Waiting for Godot, his first published work was not a play but a c...
This paper looks at some key moments in the Beckett oeuvre in which Dante appears. Traversing publis...
Beckett has continually alluded to Dante throughout his career. This thesis traces the extent of the...
Samuel Beckett’s “Dante postcards” record the first three smiles to be found in the Purgatorio. In d...
Samuel Beckett’s “Dante postcards” record the first three smiles to be found in the Purgatorio. In d...
After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dant...
<div>This article seeks to examine Samuel Beckett’s subversive and countercanonical use of the canon...
Samuel Beckett’s works are characterized by a pervasive sense of lateness—of having arrived after th...
Beckett and the Institution of Literature investigates the evolution of Samuel Beckett's ...
This article seeks to examine Samuel Beckett’s subversive and counter-canonical use of the canonical...
Be it as a completed work or as individual sections, the ambiguity of T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem ...
La voix narratrice qui s'engage dans la construction des Textes pour rien de Samuel Beckett, commenc...
After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dant...
The purpose of the present research is to investigate the presence of Dante in four authors of the t...
A reflection on Dante and the literary canon may appear tautological since nowadays his belonging to...
Though Beckett is best known for Waiting for Godot, his first published work was not a play but a c...
This paper looks at some key moments in the Beckett oeuvre in which Dante appears. Traversing publis...
Beckett has continually alluded to Dante throughout his career. This thesis traces the extent of the...
Samuel Beckett’s “Dante postcards” record the first three smiles to be found in the Purgatorio. In d...
Samuel Beckett’s “Dante postcards” record the first three smiles to be found in the Purgatorio. In d...
After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dant...
<div>This article seeks to examine Samuel Beckett’s subversive and countercanonical use of the canon...
Samuel Beckett’s works are characterized by a pervasive sense of lateness—of having arrived after th...
Beckett and the Institution of Literature investigates the evolution of Samuel Beckett's ...
This article seeks to examine Samuel Beckett’s subversive and counter-canonical use of the canonical...
Be it as a completed work or as individual sections, the ambiguity of T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem ...
La voix narratrice qui s'engage dans la construction des Textes pour rien de Samuel Beckett, commenc...
After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dant...
The purpose of the present research is to investigate the presence of Dante in four authors of the t...
A reflection on Dante and the literary canon may appear tautological since nowadays his belonging to...
Though Beckett is best known for Waiting for Godot, his first published work was not a play but a c...