Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The old credentials; 2. This cursed first person; 3. No knowing not said; 4. Whom else; 5. Rare flickers; Conclusion.

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The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's prose and theatre.

About the Author

Derval Tubridy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-director of the London Beckett Seminar at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Council member of the British Association of Irish Studies. Author of Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (2001), she has published widely on modernism and Irish studies, and has received funding from the Fulbright Commission, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. She works on modern and contemporary literature, performance and the visual arts with a particular focus on the intersections between language, materiality and process.

Reviews

'… the book injects new energy into well-rehearsed debates, intervening in conversations on the primacy of gesture and rhythm in Beckett, on the correspondences between his experiments in drama and narrative, and on the irreducible distance between bodily existence and self-relation.' Ruben Borg, Journal of Modern Literature