Beckett, the Shape Changer: A Symposium

227 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction - Katharine Worth; 2. The Satiric Shape of Watt - John Chalker; 3. "The labours of poetical excavation" - Charles Peake; 4. Assumption to Lessness: Beckett's shorter fiction - Brian Finney; 5. Innovation and continuity in How It Is - Victor Sage; 6. The dubious consolations in Beckett's fiction: art, love, and nature - Barbara Handy; 7. Bilingual playwright - Harry Cockerham; 8. Film and the religion of art - Martin Dodsworth; 9. The space and sound in Beckett's theatre - Katharine Worth; Select list of Beckett's principal works; Select list of critical writings; Index.