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Selected publications

Books

  • Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Edited collections

  • Kittler Now: Current Perspectives in Kittler Studies. Eds. Stephen Sale and Laura Salisbury (forthcoming 2013)
  • Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950. Eds. Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010).
  • Other Becketts. Eds. Daniela Caselli, Steven Connor, Laura Salisbury (Tallahassee: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2002)

Articles

  • ‘Bulimic Beckett: Food for Thought and the Archive of Analysis’,
    Critical Quarterly 53.3 (2011)
  • 'Art of Noise: Beckett's Language in a Culture of Information', Samuel Beckett Aujourd'hui 22 (2010): 355-372.
  • 'Narration and Neurology: Ian McEwan's Mother Tongue', Textual Practice 24.5 (2010): 883-912.
  • '"What Is the Word": Beckett's Aphasic Modernism', Journal of Beckett Studies 17 (2008): 80-128.
  • 'Michel Serres: Science, Fiction, and the Shape of the Relation', Science Fiction Studies 33 (2006) : 30-52.
  • 'Beside Oneself: Beckett, Comic Tremor and Solicitude', Parallax 11 (2005) : 81-92.
  • 'Introduction' (with Daniela Caselli and Steven Connor), Other Becketts. Spec. issue of Journal of Beckett Studies (2002) : i-xiv.
  • '"So the unreasoning goes": Comic Timing and Trembling in Ill Seen Ill Said', Samuel Beckett Aujourd'hui 11 (2001) : 372-382.

Book chapters

  • With Chris Code, ‘Jackson’s Parrot: Samuel Beckett, Speech Automatisms and Psychosomatic Language’, in Talking Normal: Speech Pathologies and Literature (in press: London: Routledge, 2013).
  • ‘Gloria SMH and Beckett's Linguistic Encryptions’, in The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts, ed. S E Gontarski (in press: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
  • 'Psychology', in Beckett in Context, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 312-323.
  • 'Transpositions: The Noise of Life Signs', in Transpositions: Deborah Robinson (Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press, 2012), pp. 41-46.
  • 'Linguistic Trepanation: Brain Damage, Penetrative Seeing, and the Revolution of the Word', in Minds, Bodies and Machines, 1790-1920, eds. Deirdre Coleman and Hilary Fraser (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011).
  • '"Something or Nothing": Beckett and the Matter of Language', in Beckett and Nothing, ed. Daniela Caselli (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. 213-236.
  • 'Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity', in Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, eds. Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 204-230.
  • 'Introduction' (with Andrew Shail), Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, eds. Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 1-40.
  • '"Throw up for Good": Gagging, Compulsion and a Comedy of Ethics in the Trilogy', in Beckett and Ethics, ed. Russell Smith (London: Continuum, 2009), pp. 163-180.
  • 'Laughing Matters: The Comic Timing of Irish Joking', in Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism, ed. Graeme Harper (London: Continuum, 2002), pp. 158-74.
Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing

 
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