Contains three sections: Beckett and Romanticism, the conference proceedings of Beckett at Reading 2006, and a collection of miscellaneous essays. This title presents contributions on Beckett's attitudes toward Romantic aesthetics in general. It reflects the importance of the Beckett Foundation's Archive to scholars.

Introduction Beckett and Romanticism Dirk Van HULLE: “Accursed Creator”: Beckett, Romanticism and “the Modern Prometheus” Paul LAWLEY: Failure and Tradition: Coleridge / Beckett Elizabeth BARRY: The Long View: Beckett, Johnson, Wordsworth and the Language of Epitaphs Mark NIXON: Beckett and Romanticism in the 1930s Chris ACKERLEY: Samuel Beckett and Anthropomorphic Insolence Franz Michael MAIER: Two Versions of Nacht und Träume: What Franz Schubert Tells Us about a Favourite Song of Beckett John BOLIN: The “irrational heart”: Romantic Disillusionment in Murphy and The Sorrows of Young Werther Andrew EASTHAM: Beckett’s Sublime Ironies: The Trilogy, Krapp’s Last Tape, and the Remainders of Romanticism Michael Angelo RODRIGUEZ: Romantic Agony: Fancy and Imagination in Samuel Beckett’s All Strange Away Beckett at Reading 2006 María José CARRERA: “En un lugar della mancha”: Samuel Beckett’s Reading of Don Quijote in the Whoroscope Notebook Friedhelm RATHJEN: Neitherways: Long Ways in Beckett’s Shorts John PILLING: From an Abandoned Work: “all the variants of the one” Anthony CORDINGLEY: Beckett and “l’ordre naturel”: The Universal Grammar of Comment c'est/How It Is Marion FRIES-DIECKMANN: Beckett and the German Language: Text and Image Rónán MCDONALD: “What a male!”: Triangularity, Desire and Precedence in “Before Play” and Play Sean LAWLOR: “Alba” and “Dortmunder”: Signposting Paradise and the Balls-aching World David A. HATCH: Samuel Beckett’s “Che Sciagura” and the Subversion of Irish Moral Convention Paul STEWART: A Rump Sexuality: The Recurrence of Defecating Horses in Beckett’s Oeuvre Gregory BYALA: Murphy, Order, Chaos Maximilian de GAYNESFORD: Knowing How To Go On Ending Karine GERMONI: The Theatre of Le Dépeupleur Dirk Van HULLE / Mark NIXON: “Holo and unholo”: The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project Free Space Jackie BLACKMAN: Beckett Judaizing Beckett: “a Jew from Greenland” in Paris Russell SMITH: “The acute and increasing anxiety of the relation itself”: Beckett, the Author-Function, and the Ethics of Enunciation Thomas J. COUSINEAU: Demented vs. Creative Emulation in Murphy Sjef HOUPPERMANS: Falling Down and Standing Up and Falling Down Again… Carla TABAN: Molloy: de ‘jeux de mots’ aux modalités po(ï)étiques de configuration textuelle Guillaume GESVRET: Posture de la prière, écriture de la précarité (Mal vu mal dit, Cap au pire et ... que nuages...) Anne COUSSEAU: Rencontre de Charles Juliet avec Samuel Beckett: “Cette parole nue qui vient de la souffrance” Notes on Contributors