Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others Beyond Mourning and Melancholia

by Kim, Rina

• ISBN13: 9780230230477
• ISBN10: 0230230474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Author Biography

Rina Kim is Lecturer in Drama at the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Previously she lectured at the University of Warwick, UK, where she completed her PhD and further developed her expertise in Anglo-Irish literature as well as British and European theatre.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Ireland-as-woman	p. 24
Woman-as-Ireland	p. 34
'The comic exaggeration of what elsewhere is expressed in elegy'	p. 42
Memories and Melancholia in Beckett's Early French Fiction	p. 48
Introduction	p. 48
Mourning and melancholia	p. 49
Women and Ireland as lost objects	p. 57
Analysing away	p. 64
The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama	p. 76
Introduction	p. 76
Alternation between mourning and melancholia in All That Fall	p. 79
Farewell to love: Krapp's Last Tape	p. 90
'All the others ... Throttling the dead in his head'	p. 97
Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Kleinian Approaches	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Recuperating the female voice in Happy Days	p. 115
Mania and the female castration anxiety in Happy Days	p. 121
Flight from the 'self so-called': Play and Film	p. 131
The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works	p. 140
Introduction	p. 140
Restoring the abject entity in Not I	p. 142
'Seek well': search for the lost (m)other in Footfalls and ...but the clouds...	p. 153
'On the Sense of Loneliness' and Company	p. 161
'Foreknell': Ill Seen Ill Said and Rockaby	p. 169
Conclusion: Stirrings Still	p. 179
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 205
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