Myth and ritual in the plays of Samuel Beckett / edited by Katherine H. Burkman.

Contributor Burkman, Katherine H.

Imprint:Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1987.

Description169 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Myth and ritual in the plays of Samuel Beckett: an introduction / Katherine H. Burkman -- "Getting on": ritual as façon in Beckett's plays / Lois More Overbeck -- Perilous journeys on Beckett's stages: traveling through words / Susan D. Brienza -- From the perspective of actress/critic: ritual patterns in Beckett's Happy Days / Martha Fehsenfeld -- To speak the words of "The Tribe": the wordlessness of Samuel Beckett's metaphysical clowns / Rosette C. Lamont -- Rites of story: the old man at play / Mary A. Doll -- Liminality: an approach to artistic process in Endgame / Susan Maughlin -- Beckett by way of Baudrillard: toward a political reading of Samuel Beckett's drama / Stephen Watt -- Bad habits while waiting for Godot: the demythification of ritual / Claudia Clausius -- The ritual of human techné in Happy Days / Phyllis Carey -- A blink in the mirror: from Oedipus to Narcissus and back in the drama of Samuel Beckett / Judith A. Roof.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.

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