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Beckett and Eros

Death of Humanism

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  • © 2000

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  1. Paul Davies
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Womb of the Great Mother Emptiness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Beckett and Eros: Mentioning the Unmentionable

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 3-22

    3. On Mythographic Reading

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 23-38

    4. Elysium of the Roofless

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 39-52

    5. Beckett, the Heart Sutra, and dzogchen

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 53-71

    6. On the Descent of the Soul

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 72-89

    7. Complete Being

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 90-108

  3. The Dark Stream

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. What it is their Humanity Stifles

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 111-124

    3. After the Second Crisis: Entering the Cylinder

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 125-142

    4. Krapp’s Tapes and the Myth of Recurrence

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 143-151

    5. Mrs Rooney at the Mouth of Creation

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 152-165

    6. Care and Punish

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 166-178

    7. Madness of the Norm

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 179-196

    8. Open Sky Mind

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 197-214

    9. That Unheeded Neither

      • Paul Davies
      Pages 215-223

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 224-239
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About this book

The decade since Beckett's death has seen new interests in the erotic sweeping through our culture, acting in uneasy counterpoint to its established humanistic infrastructure and opening new questions about the significance of sexuality. Surprisingly or not, Beckett has startling further light to throw on the erotic phenomenon variously but insistently recognised in our time. This book is the first to propose a 'mythopoetics of sex' with which to explore Beckett's work as a whole.

About the author

Paul Davies is Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster, UK.

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