This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.

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PAUL STEWART is an Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He is the author of Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett's Disjunctions, as well as numerous articles on facets of Beckett's works for such journals as The Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui.

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A Rump Sexuality: The Recurrence of Defecating Horses in Beckett's Oeuvre The Horror of Sex The Horrors of Reproduction Alternating and Alternative Sexualities Sex and Aesthetics Aesthetic Reproduction across the Oeuvre