Samuel Beckett : laughing matters, comic timing /
Laura Salisbury.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.
- viii, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
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'