Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Beckettian Phenomenologies? Ulrika Maude (University of Durham) and Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton); PART I: BECKETT AND PHENOMENOLOGY; 1. 'But what was this pursuit of meaning, in this indifference to meaning?': Beckett, Husserl and 'Meaning Creation', Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton); 2. Phenomenologies of the Nothing: Democritus, Heidegger, Beckett, Shane Weller (University of Kent at Canterbury); 3. Beckett and Sartre: The Nauseous Character of All Flesh, Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London) 4. 'Material of a Strictly Peculiar Order': Beckett, Merleau-Ponty and Perception, Ulrika Maude (University of Durham); PART II: BECKETT'S PHENOMENOLOGIES; 5. Between Art-world and Life-world: Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Mark Nixon (University of Reading); 6. Murphydurke, or towards a Phenomenology of Immaturity, Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania); 7. Bodily Histories: Beckett and the Phenomenological Approach to the Other, Steven Matthews (Oxford Brookes University); 8. What Remains of Beckett: Evasion and History, Daniel Katz (Universite de Paris VII); 9. Beckett's Ghost Dramas: Monitoring a Phenomenology of Sleep, Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia); 10. Living the Unnamable: A Phenomenology of Reading, Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia); 11. The 'Distinct Context of Relevant Knowledge': Beckett's 'Yellow' and the Phenomenology of Annotation, Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand); Index.

A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work.