Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The politics of identification in Waiting for Godot / Graley Herren — What have I said? : Vladimir’s tragic recognition / Mark S. Byron — Alone and together: the psychic structure of the couple in Waiting for Godot / Mary F. Catanzaro — Beckett contra Aristotle: a choral reading of Waiting for Godot / Thomas Cousineau — Waiting upon each other: work and play in Waiting for Godot / Ramjan Ghosh — Rien à faire: the para-messianics of delay in Godot / Stephen Barker — Waiting for nothing: commitment, resistance, and Godot’s underground ancestry / Paul Sheehan — Scrutinizing the feminine in Waiting for Godot: Vladimir and Estragon await their couple’s counselor / Art Horowitz — Beckett’s lucky chance: speculation in Waiting for Godot / Eyal Amiran — Samuel Beckett’s playland: the profane and infantile politics of Waiting for Godot / Maria Margaroni — Who is Godot? : Beckett and allegory / Shane Weller — Culture, politics, and human rights in Waiting for Godot / Wanda Balzano.
• In Dialogue with Godot: Waiting and Other Thoughts, edited by Ranjan Ghosh, PhD, puts together thirteen new essays on Beckett’s most popular and widely read play, Waiting for Godot. Chapters are envisaged as dialogues with Godot, keeping in mind the event of waiting and other issues related to this Godot-Waiting phenomenon. The merit of this book lies in exploring this play from thirteen fresh perspectives introducing some important themes that have not been dealt previously. Contributors explore the play in reference to topics as varied as Hindu philosophy, Agamben, Kristeva, Derrida, the absence of women in the play, Aristotleanism in structural reading, and anti-existentialism. Essays ask, can we make claims to read this play outside the ‘absurd tradition’? Is it an anti-existential play? Can Beckett possibly be ‘Indianised’? How can the dialectic between ‘waiting’ and ‘delay’ be problematized? If Beckett was up to de-structure conventional modes of drama-writing, what connection could he possibly have with Aristotle and his normative modes? Can the Vladimir-Estragon relationship be critiqued psychoanalytically? Can questions of political commitment be challenged anew, resisting easy propositions to considering it a Resistance play? Can the Godot / Resistance collocation be examined through torture (the series of beatings that structures the play), through relationship (the pseudo-couple), and finally through language (the insistent coupling of violence and meaning)? In Dialogue with Godot offers a refreshingly new and varied approach to Samuel Beckett’s most popular play. –Publisher’s description.

Subjects:

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot.
• En attendant Godot (Beckett, Samuel) fast (OCoLC)fst01357231
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. En attendant Godot. (DE-588)4201228-4 gnd

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