Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1 Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction 23
I Introduction 23
II Ireland-as-woman 24
III Woman-as-Ireland 34
IV 'The comic exaggeration of what elsewhere is expressed in elegy' 42
2 Memories and Melancholia in Beckett's Early French Fiction 48
I Introduction 48
II Mourning and melancholia 49
III Women and Ireland as lost objects 57
IV Analysing away 64
3 The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama 76
I Introduction 76
II Alternation between mourning and melancholia in All That Fall 79
III Farewell to love: Krapp's Last Tape 90
IV 'All the others ... Throttling the dead in his head' Embers Eh Joe 97
4 Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Kleinian Approaches 107
I Introduction 107
II Recuperating the female voice in Happy Days 115
III Mania and the female castration anxiety in Happy Days 121
IV Flight from the 'self so-called': Play and Film 131
5 The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works 140
I Introduction 140
II Restoring the abject entity in Not I 142
III 'Seek well': search for the lost (m)other in Footfalls and ...but the clouds... 153
IV 'On the Sense of Loneliness' and Company 161
V 'Foreknell': Ill Seen Ill Said and Rockaby 169
Conclusion: Stirrings Still 179
Notes 185
Bibliography 197
Index 205
