Beckett's dying words / Christopher Ricks
1993, Reprint. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #337377
ISBN: 0198123582
Physical description: vi, 218 p.; 21 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Death. The wish to die. Death as ease. Positive annihilation. Never dying. Certified death -- Words That Went Dead. Abstracted to death. Cliches. Resurrection. The obituary -- Languages, Both Dead and Living. Memento mori. Gaelic. De rigueur. Archaism and the moribund. The antithetical sense. The counter-poison -- The Irish Bull. Definitions. The bull and blasphemy. The bull and death. The bull, identity, and posterity. Coleridge and the bull. Sydney Smith and the Irish. Some bulls from Beckett. The bull and power -- Postscript: December 1989 -- A Selective Chronology of Beckett's Published Volumes. Subjects: Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 Criticism and interpretation. Beckett, Samuel 1906-. Death in literature. Mortality in literature. French drama 20th century History and criticism. French literature. Genre: Bibliography. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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