Deleuze and Beckett

"Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays illuminating similarities between the philosophies and practices of Deleuze and Beckett. The contributors include some of the leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists in the world, and their essays address different ideas and concepts of Deleuzian philosophy as well as a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, stage and television plays, and film work. The book considers Deleuze's interpretation of Beckett's work and demonstrates that Deleuzian concepts and ideas can be usefully applied to Beckett's texts in order provide a greater understanding of Beckett's characters and their journeys. Deleuze's philosophy helps us to recognize that what has been seen as the private territory of despair, loneliness, and emptiness in Beckett's work masks a world of flow and fluctuation that expresses multiple and heterogeneous possibilities."-- Provided by publisher Machine generated contents note: Introduction; S. E. Wilmer and Audrone ŽukauskaitePART I: DIFFERENCE, BECOMING, MULTIPLICITY1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze; Anthony Uhlmann2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze; S. E. Gontarski3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible; Audrone ŽukauskaitePART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIALITY4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett's Gallery of Moribunds; Ben Keatinge5. 'Till ooze again and on': Textual Desire and the Subject's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze, Lacan); Isabelle Ost6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett's Sociendum; Timothy S. MurphyPART III: SPACE, TIME AND MEMORY 7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson; David Addyman8. The Problem of the Any-space-whatever between Deleuze's Cinema and Beckett's Prose; Garin Dowd9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan's Krapp's Last Tape and Steenbeckett; Colin GardnerPART IV: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE 10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinker; Ruben Borg11. A Crystal-theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre's Crystalline Potential; Daniel Koczy12. 'I switch off': Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event; Arka ChattopadhyayIndex. Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuzian philosophy to a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, and stage, film and television work.