Beckett's Dantes: Intertexuality in the Fiction and Criticism

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Manchester University Press, 2005 - 232 pages
This is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. Caselli gives an original intertextual reading of Beckett's work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett's fiction and criticism.
 

Contents

Acknowledgements page
1
Dantes in Limbo
10
Belacqua does not observe the rule of the road
35
intratextuality in More Pricks Than Kicks
57
Murphy and Watt
81
Who is the third beside you? Authority in Mercier and Camier
102
from the Novellas to the Three Novels
120
Staging the Inferno in How It Is
148
The Lost Ones
183
farewell to the old lutist
201
Index
226
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Daniela Caselli is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

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