- Bib ID:
- 1318488
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ricks, Christopher, 1933-
- Description:
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- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
- vi, 218 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0198123582 (acid-free paper)
- Full contents:
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- Death. The wish to die. Death as ease. Positive annihilation. Never dying. Certified death
- Words That Went Dead. Abstracted to death. Cliches. Resurrection. The obituary
- Languages, Both Dead and Living. Memento mori. Gaelic. De rigueur. Archaism and the moribund. The antithetical sense. The counter-poison
- The Irish Bull. Definitions. The bull and blasphemy. The bull and death. The bull, identity, and posterity. Coleridge and the bull. Sydney Smith and the Irish. Some bulls from Beckett. The bull and power
- Postscript: December 1989
- A Selective Chronology of Beckett's Published Volumes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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