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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: “Reduced to doing a lap with Führer”Beckett’s Political Aesthetic
Adorno: Putting Meaning on Trial
Watt’s Eintopf
1. “The same old mouldy words”: Beckett, Modernism, and the Irish Free State
Ireland, Letters, and Politics
More Pricks than Kicks, Execution, and the Postrevolutionary State
The Aftermath of Mccabe
2. “Echo’s Bones”: Sex, Politics, and Entailment in the Irish Free State
3. Beckett in History: German Diaries, Watt, and the Problem of Propaganda
4. Taking Them at their Word: Politics of the Body in Malone Dies
Lip Service and Action: Germany Again
“Neutral and Inert”: Writing and History
Annihilation
Catastrophe
Degenerate Figures: “the new thing that has happened or the old thing that has happened again”
5. “It all boils down to a question of words”: The Unnamable and History’s Abattoirs
Arenas
Heading to the Abattoir
Heaps, Walls, and Language
Theoretical Coda: Reconsidering Agamben and Beckett
6. “Prophetic Relish”: Famine Politics in Beckett’s Endgame
History and Starvation
Endgame: Not a Grain of Truth
“There’s English for you”
“If I don’t kill that rat, he’ll die”
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Bibliography
Index
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