Beckett''s Proust/Deleuze''s Proust

An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction; M.Bryden & M.Topping PART I: READING ENCOUNTERS The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze); M.Bryden The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiolotics and Proust; C.M.Drohan Different Essences and Essential Differences: Proust versus Deleuze; E.Fülöp Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2 ; J.Hughes Proust/Deleuze: Mnemosyne, Goddess or Factory?; P.Mengue Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature; A.Uhlmann PART II: VISUAL, CINEMATIC AND SONIC ENCOUNTERS Apprenticeship, Philosophy, and the ''Secret Pressures of the Work of Art'' in Deleuze, Beckett, Proust and Ruiz; or Remaking the Recherche ; G.Dowd Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton; P.ffrench ''Staring Sightlessly'': Prousts Presence in Beckett''s Absence; C.Lunberry Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett; F.M.Maier The Long and the Short of it... Moving Images in Proust and Beckett; J.C.Murphy The Gift of Time: Reading Proust Reading Deleuze Reading Proust; J.Reid PART III: BODILY ENCOUNTERS Reverberating Inwards: Beckett Reading Proust; M.Bryden PART IV: BODILY AND SENSORY ENCOUNTERS Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett; J.M.Jeffers Coldness and Cruelty as Performance in Deleuze''s Proust; I.Pace Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la Recherché du Temps Perdu ; M.Topping Murphy''s Madeleine; A.A.Watt EPILOGUE: AN IMAGINARY ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PROUST, BECKETT AND DELEUZE ...Proust...Beckett...Deleuze: A Quad Regained; J.Cornette References Index