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Samuel Beckett : laughing matters, comic timing / Laura Salisbury.

By: Salisbury, LauraMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012Description: viii, 253 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781474401401; 0748647481 (hbk.)Subject(s): Comic, The, in literatureDDC classification: 848.91409

Contents:

Critical Joking: The Early -- Prose Superiority, Sarcasm , Scholarship -- The Loutishness of Learning -- Diminishing Laughing Returns -- Art vs. Book-Keeping -- S/M : Scholarship and Mimicry -- Critical Timing Gagging in the Trilogy-- Gagging for It -- Partial Incorporation -- An Obligation to Express Tiring Desire -- Toilet Training, Resistant Material -- Nihil in Intellectu Power Playing in Endgame -- Perhaps -- Unhappiness: Nothing Funnier Playing for Time -- The Play of the Audience Just Play -- Dialectics at a Standstill Comic Tremors: The Late Prose -- Embers and Ashes -- Imagination at Wit's End -- Ill Saying, Ill Said -- Ill Seeing Slapstick Echoes: The Late Plays -- Limping Gags -- Deadpan Demands Gravity and Levity -- 'Kindly Tune Accordingly' -- 'Like Something Out of Beckett'

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	848.91409 SAL/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P42960

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Critical Joking: The Early -- Prose Superiority, Sarcasm , Scholarship -- The Loutishness of Learning -- Diminishing Laughing Returns -- Art vs. Book-Keeping -- S/M : Scholarship and Mimicry -- Critical Timing

Gagging in the Trilogy-- Gagging for It -- Partial Incorporation -- An Obligation to Express Tiring Desire -- Toilet Training, Resistant Material -- Nihil in Intellectu

Power Playing in Endgame -- Perhaps -- Unhappiness: Nothing Funnier Playing for Time -- The Play of the Audience Just Play -- Dialectics at a Standstill

Comic Tremors: The Late Prose -- Embers and Ashes -- Imagination at Wit's End -- Ill Saying, Ill Said -- Ill Seeing

Slapstick Echoes: The Late Plays -- Limping Gags -- Deadpan Demands Gravity and Levity -- 'Kindly Tune Accordingly' --
'Like Something Out of Beckett'

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