Alan Warren Friedman is Thaman Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the department of English at the

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. He is a specialist in the work of

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

and

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

Selected publications

* ''Fictional Death and The Modernist Enterprise''.

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, 1995.
"Party Pieces in Joyce's 'Dubliners'"
''James Joyce Quarterly'', Vol. 36, No. 3 (Spring, 1999), pp. 471–484. * ''Beckett in Black and Red: Samuel Beckett's Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro''. University of Kentucky Press, Louisville, 2000. * ''Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett''. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2007. * "Death and Beyond in J.B. Priestley's Johnson over Jordan", ''New Theatre Quarterly'', 22.1 (February 2006): 76–90. * "Biographical Joyce", ''James Joyce Quarterly'', 45.3-4 Spring/Summer 2008. (with Charles Rossman) * "De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference". ''European Joyce Studies'' 18. Editions Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2009 (with Charles Rossman). * "Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond", ''Texas Studies in Language and Literature'', 51.1 March 2009. (with Charles Rossman). * "Samuel Beckett Meets Buster Keaton: Godeau, Film, and New York", ''Texas Studies in Language and Literature'', 51.1 (March 2009), pp. 41–46.

References

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