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Death Is A Central Theme Both In Beckett's Writing & In His Reception, But There Has Until Now Been Little Critical Work On The Topic. This Is A Sustained Analysis Of Beckett & Death. Strange Exalted Death!: Disinterring Beckett And Death / Mark Nixon -- Writing Myself Into The Ground: Textual Existence And Death In Beckett / Shane Weller -- Orgy Of False Being Life In Common: Beckett And The Politics Of Death / Sean Lawlor -- O Death Where Is Thy Sting?: Finding Words For The Big Ideas / Elizabeth Barry -- Beckett, Augustine, And The Rhetoric Of Dying / David Addyman -- Inane Space And Lively Place In Beckett's Forties Fiction / Erik Tonning -- Beckett's Unholy Dying: From Malone Dies To The Unnamable / Peter Fifield -- Beckett's Amnesiacs, Neuropsychology And Temporal Moribundity / Julie Campbell -- A Voice Comes To One In The Dark--imagine: Radio, The Listener And The Dark Comedy Of All That Fall / Paul Stewart -- Sterile Reproduction: Beckett's Death Of The Species And Fictional Regeneration / Steven Matthews. Edited By Steven Barfield, Philip Tew, And Matthew Feldman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.