Beckett's Manuscripts in the Marketplace

[...]I will also take a look at Beckett's own attitude to his manuscripts and the archival marketplace. Leaving aside the extant creative notebooks, such as the "Dream" or the "Whoroscope" notebooks (both now held by the Beckett International Foundation in Reading) and the v...

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Published in:	Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Md.), 2011-11, Vol.18 (4), p.823-831
Main Author:	Nixon, Mark
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 20th century Anthologies Attitudes Authors Authors and publishers Beckett, Samuel Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 Bibliography Collecting and the Library Creative writing Creativity drama English Literature fiction French literature History Irish literature Letters literary marketplace Poetry prose Publishers and publishing Romantic period Translations Twentieth Century Writers Writing
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Summary:	[...]I will also take a look at Beckett's own attitude to his manuscripts and the archival marketplace. Leaving aside the extant creative notebooks, such as the "Dream" or the "Whoroscope" notebooks (both now held by the Beckett International Foundation in Reading) and the various notes on his reading, the earliest extant manuscripts of creative writing are the typescripts of the short story "Echo's Bones" (intended for inclusion in More Pricks than Kicks), versions of poems (in particular "Whoroscope"), and the Murphy notebooks.
ISSN:	1071-6068 1080-6601 1080-6601