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."--

Includes index.

Introduction; S.E. Wilmer and Audrone ukauskaite -- PART I: DIFFERENCE, BECOMING, MULTIPLICITY -- 1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze; Anthony Uhlmann -- 2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze; S.E. Gontarski -- 3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible; Audrone ukauskaite -- PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIALITY -- 4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett's Gallery of -- Moribunds; Ben Keatinge -- 5. 'Till ooze again and on': Textual Desire and the Subject's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze, Lacan); Isabelle Ost -- 6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett's Sociendum; Timothy S. Murphy -- PART III: SPACE, TIME AND MEMORY -- 7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson; David Addyman -- 8. The Problem of the Any-space-whatever between Deleuze's Cinema and Beckett's Prose; Garin Dowd -- 9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan's Krapp's Last Tape and Steenbeckett; Colin Gardner -- PART IV: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE -- 10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinker; Ruben Borg -- 11. A Crystal-theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre's Crystalline Potential; Daniel Koczy -- 12. 'I switch off': Tow…