Borderless Beckett = Beckett sans frontieres : Tokyo 2006 / edited by Minako Okamuro [and others].

Essays and table of contents in English or French.

"The essays published in this volume are revised selections from the Symposium held at Waseda University from 29 September to 1 October, 2006, under the auspices of the 21st Century COE Institute for Theatre Research at Waseda and the Samuel Beckett Research Circle of Japan"--Introduction

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

TABLE OF CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIÈRES; INTRODUCTION; EIGHT WAYS OF LOOKING AT SAMUEL BECKETT; DISLOCATIONS: LIMITS AND LIMITLESSNESS; LITTÉRATURE ET PHILOSOPHIE : VOIX ET IMAGES EN QUESTION; Of CLOWNS AND ARTISTS; ANIMALS, HUMANS, STONES; TELEVISION'S "SAVAGE EYE": PHANTASMAGORICAL AND VIRTUAL BODIES; BECKETT'S BORDERLESS WORDS / PAROLES SANS FRONTIÈRES; WITNESSING; "SSSH" : SOUNDS AND SIGNS OF SILENCE; BORDERLESSNESS : LIFE AND DEATH / BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS; CONTRIBUTORS / LISTE DES AUTEURS.

SBT/A 19 features selected papers from the Borderless Beckett / Beckett sans frontières Symposium held in Tokyo at Waseda University in 2006. The essays penned by eminent and young scholars from around the world examine the many ways Beckett's art crosses borders: coupling reality and dream, life and death, as in Japanese Noh drama, or transgressing distinctions between limits and limitlessness; humans, animals, virtual bodies, and stones; French and English; words and silence; and the received frameworks of philosophy and aesthetics. The highlight of the volume is the contribution by Nobel La.

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