Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prolegomenon to Any Future Beckett Criticism

1 Portraits of the Artist as a Young Critic: Beckett’s ‘Dante … Bruno . Vico .. Joyce’ and the Rewriting of Joyce in ‘Assumption’

2 Dreams of a Fair to Middling Critic-Artist: The Nature of Symbol in Proust and the Role of Portrait as ‘Structural Convenience’ in Beckett’s First Novel

3 Re-Joyce-ing Murphy

4 What’s What in Watt

5 The Pseudocouple Dante-Joyce: The Nature of the ‘Revelation’ in Mercier and Camier and Stories

6 A Not So ‘Distant Music’: Joycean Counterpoint in the Trilogy

7 Critical Beckett: Incorporating Joyce in the Post-Trilogy Works

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Works

Index of Names