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"Beckett and Ireland is the first volume of essays devoted exclusively to the topic of Beckett's vexed relationship with his homeland. It provides compelling evidence of the continuing relevance of Ireland to Beckett's writing long after he left for wartime France. Each essay is writt...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Ireland/Europe ... Beckett/Beckett Seán Kennedy; 1. The Ghost at the feast: Beckett and Irish studies Ronán McDonald; 2. Frames of referrance: Samuel Beckett as an Irish question David Lloyd; 3. The politics of aftermath: Beckett, modernism and the Irish Free State James McNaughton; 4. Beckett at the GPO: Murphy, Ireland, and the 'unhomely' Patrick Bixby; 5. 'In the street I was lost': cultural dislocation in Beckett's 'The End' Seán Kennedy; 6. Postcolonial parables: repositioning Waiting for Godot Victor Merriman; 7. Ghost writer: Beckett's Irish Gothic Sine;ad Mooney; 8. Back roads: Edgeworth, Yeats, Bowen, Beckett Peter Boxall; 9. Vestiges of Ireland in Beckett's late fiction Michael Wood; 10. Afterword: 'the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara': Beckett, Ireland and elsewhere Andrew Gibson; Bibliography; Index.