000 01295cam a22001697a 4500
020 _a9781474401401
020 _a0748647481 (hbk.)
040 _cCUS
082 _a848.91409
_bSAL/S
100 1 _aSalisbury, Laura.
245 1 0 _aSamuel Beckett : laughing matters, comic timing /
_cLaura Salisbury.
260 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_cc2012.
300 _aviii, 253 p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aCritical 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'
650 0 _aComic, The, in literature.
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