Beckett's Proust - Deleuze's Proust

This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett. An Encounter Between Deleuze The Philosopher, Proust The Novelist, And Beckett The Writer, Creating Interdisciplinary And Inter-aesthetic Bridges Between Them. The Book Covers Textual, Visual, Sonic And Performative Phenomena, Including Provocative Speculation About How Proust Might Have Responded To Deleuze And Beckett. Pt. 1. Reading Encounters -- The Embarrassment Of Meeting : Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze) / Mary Bryden -- The Search For Strange Worlds : Deleuzian Semiotics And Proust / Christopher M. Drohan -- Different Essences And Essential Differences : Proust Versus Deleuze / Erika Fülöp -- Signs And Subjectivity In Proust, And Signs And Cinema 1 And 2 / Joe Hughes -- Proust/deleuze : Mnemosyne, Goddess, Or Factory? / Philippe Mengue -- Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust, And Beckett : Thinking In Literature / Anthony Uhlmann -- Pt. 2. Visual, Cinematic, And Sonic Encounters -- Apprenticeship, Philosophy, And The 'secret Pressures Of The Work Of Art' In Deleuze, Beckett, Proust, And Ruiz Or Remaking The Recherche / Garin Dowd -- Proust, Deleuze, And The Spiritual Automaton / Patrick French -- 'staring Sightlessly' : Proust's Presence In Beckett's Absence / Clark Lunberry -- Models Of Musical Communication In Proust And Beckett / Michael Maier -- The Long And The Short Of It ... Moving Images In Proust And Beckett / Carol Murphy -- The Gift Of Time : Reading Proust, Reading Deleuze, Reading Proust / James Reid -- Pt. 3. Bodily Encounters -- Deviant Masculinity And Deleuzian Difference In Proust And Beckett / Jennifer Jeffers -- Coldness And Cruelty As Performance In Deleuze's Proust / Ian Pace -- Proustian Puppetry As Deleuzian Sign In A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu / Margaret Topping -- Murphy's Madeleine / Adam Watt -- Epilogue : An Imaginary Encounter Between Proust, Beckett, And Deleuze -- ... Proust ... Beckett ... Deleuze ... : A Quad Regained / Jérome Cornette. Edited By Mary Bryden And Margaret Topping. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze)....Pages 13-25 The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiotics and Proust....Pages 26-38 Different Essences and Essential Differences: Proust versus Deleuze....Pages 39-46 Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2....Pages 47-57 Proust/Deleuze: Mnemosyne, Goddess or Factory?....Pages 58-72 Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature....Pages 73-86 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 Apprenticeship, Philosophy, and the ‘secret Pressures of the Work of Art’ in Deleuze, Beckett, Proust and Ruiz; or Remaking the Recherche....Pages 89-103 Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton....Pages 104-116 ’Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence....Pages 117-127 Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett....Pages 128-135 The Long and the Short of it... Moving Images in Proust and Beckett....Pages 136-154 The Gift of Time: Reading Proust Reading Deleuze Reading Proust....Pages 155-167 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett....Pages 171-182 Coldness and Cruelty as Performance in Deleuze’s Proust....Pages 183-198 Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la recherche du temps perdu....Pages 199-214 Murphy’s Madeleine....Pages 215-226 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 ... Proust... Beckett... Deleuze...: a Quad Regained....Pages 229-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-248 An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett. This collection sets up an exhilarating encounter between the novelist Marcel Proust, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and the writer Samuel Beckett. Both Deleuze and Beckett wrote monographs on Proust, while Deleuze wrote extensively about Beckett, in both his solo work and in his joint writing with Guattari. Yet, up until now, there has been no full-length study which has brought the three writers together. Combining their specialist scholarship in Beckett, Deleuze, and Proust, Mary Bryden and Margaret Topping have assembled an international line-up of scholars, including renowned experts in all three fields. The study creates interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between the three writers, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, as well as including provocative and imaginative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett