Other publications by Chris Ackerley

Books

Milton as Multilingualist: Selected Essays, 1982-2004, by John Hale. Edited Chris Ackerley & Lisa Marr. Otago Studies in English, #8, 2005

The Bridging of Troy, London: Gollancz, 1986, 124 pp. [Bridge, fiction]

Book Chapters

'Despised for their Obviousness: Samuel Beckett's Dogs'. Forthcoming in Samuel Beckett and Animality, ed. Mary Bryden (Cambridge: CUP, 2012).

'''I thought it was deep": Aesthetics of the Shabby in Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett'. In Proceedings from The Absurd, from Chekhov to Beckett and Ionesco, National University of Theatre and Cinematography (Bucharest: NUCAT Press, 2012).

'"The Past in Monochrome": (In)voluntary Memory in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape'. In The Tragic Comedy of Samuel Beckett: ‘Beckett in Rome’, 17-19 April 2008, ed. Daniela Guardamagna & Rossana M. Sebellin. Bari & Rome: Editori Laterza, 2009. 277-91. [IBSN 978-8842090700]

'Afterword: Samuel Beckett's Cemeteries'. In Samuel Beckett and Death, London: Continuum Books, 2009. 206-22. [ISBN 978-0826498359]

[with S.E. Gontarski] '"The knowing non-exister": Thirteen Ways of Reading Texts for Nothing.' In The Blackwell Companion to Samuel Beckett, ed. S.E. Gontarski. London: Blackwell, 2010. 289-95. [ISBN 987-1405158695]

'Schapiro, Boris' (1909-2002). Supplement to New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2006

'Samuel Beckett and the Geology of the Imagination: Toward an Excavation of Watt.' In Beckett the European, ed. Dirk van Hulle. Tallahassee, Fl: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2005. 150-63 [also published as an article] [ISBN: 1-892770-05-09]

'Markus, Erika (Rixi) (1910-1992). Frederike (Fritzi) Gordon (1906-1992) Co-subject.' In the New Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 36,ed. H. C. G. Matthew & Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2004, 175-76. [ISBN 0-19-861386-5]

'"What precisely is this 'greatness'?": Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and the Well-made Play'. In New Windows on a Woman's World, ed. Colin Gibson and Lisa Marr, vol. 2. Dunedin: Otago Studies in English [9], 2005, 461-72 [Festchrift for Jocelyn Harris] [ISBN: 1-877139-890]

'The Agony of Consciousness: The Persona(l) Element in T. S. Eliot's Early Dramatic Verse." In Four Poems by T. S. Eliot, ed. Robert Dean. Lakewood, Col.: Micawber Fine Editions, 2002. 61-183

'Lowry's Borrowings from the Unimaginable Library of the Dead'. In The Darkness that Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century, ed. Paul Tiessen and Frederick Asals. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999. 147-60 [ISBN 0-8020-4462]

In the Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. Five entries: [ISBN: 1-57958-015-7]

Murphy

A Passage to India

Under the Volcano

'Afterword' to Oscar Wilde's Salomé, trans. Jeannine Hiester, illustrated by Jay Paul Apodaca & Chris Handloser, ed. Robert Dean. Lakewood, Col.: Micawber Fine Editions, 1998, 182-201 [Special Limited Edition (150 copies), illustrated]. Republished, Lakewood, Col.: The Scrivener Press, 1998, 183-201 [Trade Edition].

'"Well, if we knew all the things": Coincidence in Ulysses and Under the Volcano'. In Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives, ed. Patrick McCarthy and Paul Tiessen. Lexington, Ky.: U P of Kentucky, 1997. 41-62 [ISBN: 0-8131-2002-0]

In Reader's Guide to Literature in English, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady. London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996. Five entries: [ISBN: 1-884964-20-6].

'The Rat which Ate of the Consecrated Wafer: A Theological Crux in Samuel Beckett's Watt.' In Word and Stage: Essays for Colin Gibson. Otago Studies in English 6. Dunedin: U Otago, 1998. 233-41 [ISBN 1-877139-11-4]

'The Language of Poetry'. In Studying English Literature: A Guide for Advancing Students, ed. Alistair Fox (Otago Studies in English I). 3rd ed., Dunedin: U Otago P, 1995. 74-96 [ISBN: 0-908569-90-4]

'Fatigue and Disgust: The Addenda to Watt', in Beckett in the 1990s: Selected Papers from the Second International Beckett Symposium Held in The Hague, 8-12 April, 1992, ed. Marius Buning & Lois Oppenheim. Amsterdam & Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, 1993. 175-88 [ISBN: 90-5183-566-3]

'Lowry's Northern Paradise'. In Regionalism and National Identity: Essays on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, ed. Reginald Berry & James Acheson. Christchurch: ACSANZ, 1985. 525-34 [ISBN: 0-473-00385-6]

'"After Lowry's Lights": Coincidence in Ulysses and Under the Volcano'. In The Interpretative Power: Essays on Literature in Honour of Margaret Dalziel, ed. C.A. Gibson. Dunedin: U Otago P, 1980. 113-26

Articles

'"And wholesome dew, call'd ros-marine": Malcolm Lowry, Herman Melville, Conrad Aiken, and Ben Jonson'. Cuadernos de literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana 13.1-2 (2010): 23-28.

'I think I am': Han van Ruler, Anthony Uhlmann & Martin Wilson, eds, Arnold Geulincx: Ethica: With Samuel Beckett's Notes, trans. Martin Wilson (Leiden & Boston: Brill [Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, #146], 2006. Review Essay; Journal of Beckett Studies 17.1 & 2 (2009): 199-209

"Ever Know What Happened?": Shades and Echoes in Samuel Beckett's Plays for Television'. Journal of Beckett Studies n.s. 18.1&2 (2009): 136-64.

'Towards a Scholarly Edition of Samuel Beckett's Watt'. Variants 6 [Textual Scholarship and the Material Book] (2009): 107-19.

'"Fun de partie": Puns and Paradigms in Endgame'. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui [Borderless Beckett / Beckett sans frontiers] 19 (2008): 315-25

'Demented Particularity, or, the Art of Annotation'. The Beckett Circle 30.1 (Spring 2007): 13-16

'An "Other Object of Note": The Relation of Point and Circle in Watt.' Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 15 (2006): 319-32.

'Jorge Luis Borges and Sir James Jeans: "The Library of Babel" and The Universe Around Us.' The Explicator 63.3 (Spring 2005): 170-73

'Samuel Beckett and the Geology of the Imagination: Toward an Excavation of Watt'. Journal of Beckett Studies n.s. 13.2 (2005): 150-63 [also in Beckett the European (2005)]

'The Uncertainty of Self: Samuel Beckett and the Location of the Voice'. Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 14 (2004): 39-51

'Lassata Sed: Samuel Beckett's Portraits of his Fair to Middling Women'. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 12 (2002): 55-70

'"Tutti é sciolto": An Operatic Crux in Joyce's Ulysses'. James Joyce Quarterly 38.1 & 2 (Fall 2000 & Winter 2001): 197-205

'Forest Murmurs: Beckett's Molloy and Wagner's Siegfried.' Journal of Beckett Studies n.s. 8.2 (Spring 1999): 73-75

'Samuel Beckett's Sibilants; Or, Why Does Murphy Hiss?' Journal of Beckett Studies n.s. 8.1 (Autumn 1998): 119-20

'Samuel Beckett and Mathematics'. Cuadernos de literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana (Buenos Aires) 3.1-2 (mayo-nov. 1998), 77-102.

Rpt. electronically (Sept. 2004): http://www2.uca.edu.ar/esp/sec-ffilosofia/esp/docs-institutos/lit-inglesa/mathem.pdf

'Beckett's Murphy'. The Explicator 55.4 (Summer 1997): 226-27

'La "Malacoda" de Beckett: o, il diablo de Dante toca Beethoven', trans. María Inéz Castagnino. Beckettiana 4 (1995): 33-42 [Spanish translation of an earlier article]

'"Living in the Same Place": Joyce's Ulysses in T. S. Eliot's "After Strange Gods"'. AUMLA 84 (Nov. 1995): 113-17

'"Who are These Hooded Hordes...": Eliot's The Waste Land and Hesse's Blick ins Chaos'. AUMLA 82 (November 1994): 103-06

'Beckett's "Malacoda": or, Dante's Devil Plays Beethoven'. Journal of Beckett Studies n.s. 3.1 (Autumn 1993): 59-64

'Notes towards Lowry's Screenplay of Tender is the Night'. Malcolm Lowry Review, 29 & 30 (Fall 1991 & Spring 1992): 31-50

'The Cartesian Hen-and-a-Half'. Journal of Beckett Studies, n.s. 2.1 (Autumn 1992): 117

'T.S. Eliot's Superfetation of το εν'. Notes and Queries n.s. 38.3 (Sept. 1991): 341-42

'Malcolm Lowry and Hermann Broch: The Aesthetics of Somnambulism in Under the Volcano and The Sleepwalkers'. Malcolm Lowry Review 26 (Spring 1990): 10-15

'Slips that Pass in the Type'. Malcolm Lowry Review 26 (Spring 1990): 5-6

'The Waste Land's Sylvan Scene'. Notes and Queries n.s. 36.2 (June 1989): 203-04

'The Consul's Book'. Malcolm Lowry Review 23 & 24 (Fall 1988 & Spring 1989): 78-92

'El México de Malcolm Lowry', trans. Luis Arturo Ramos. La Palabra y el hombre 67 (Universidad veracruzana, 1988): 30-35

'Canto 82: Pound, Swinburne (Shelley) Aeschylus, Whitman'. Paideuma 17.2 & 17.3 (Fall & Winter 1988): 209-10

'Lowry and O'Neill: Cows and Pigs and Chickens'. Malcolm Lowry Review 19 & 20 (Fall 1986 & Spring 1987): 129-30

'The "White Alps" of Under the Volcano'. Malcolm Lowry Review 17 & 18 (Fall 1985 & Spring 1986): 138-39

'Under the Volcano: A Check-list of Unknown Details'. Malcolm Lowry Review 17 & 18 (Fall 1985 & Spring 1986): 121-33

'Mexican History and Under the Volcano: Part 2: From the French Intervention to the Presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas Malc olm Lowry Review 16 (Spring 1985): 32-52

'Mexican History and Under the Volcano: Part 1: From Quetzalcóatl to Conquest'. Malcolm Lowry Review 15 (Fall 1984): 24-44

'Under the Volcano and the Spanish Civil War'. Malcolm Lowry Newsletter 14 (Spring 1984): 4-25

'Barbarous Mexico and Under the Volcano'. Notes and Queries n.s. 31.1 (March 1984): 81-83

'Eliot's The Waste Land and Shackleton's South'. Notes and Queries n.s. 31.4 (Dec. 1984): 514-15

'Lowry's Tlaxcala'. Malcolm Lowry Newsletter 13 (Fall 1983): 17-30

'The Kashmiri Elements of Under the Volcano'. Notes and Queries n.s. 30.4 (Aug. 1983): 331-33

'Malcolm Lowry's Quauhnahuac'. Malcolm Lowry Newsletter 12 (Spring 1983): 14-29

'Some Notes towards Under the Volcano'. Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982): 185-90

'Under the Volcano: Four Notes'. Malcolm Lowry Newsletter 11 (Fall 1982): 13-16

'Fortune Theatre Company, 1980'. ACT: Theatre in New Zealand 6.1 (March 1981): 8

'"In the Beginning was the Pun": Samuel Beckett's Murphy'. AUMLA 55 (May 1981): 15-22

Recent Presentations (2005-2012)

'"I thought it was deep": Aesthetics of the Shabby in Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett'. The Absurd, from Chekhov to Beckett and Ionesco, at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography [NUTC], Bucharest, 2 Nov. 2011.

'"primeval mud, impenetrable dark": Towards an Annotation of Samuel Beckett's Comment c’est / How It Is'. Out of the Archive, U York, 26 June 2011.

'Towards a Model of Validity': Literature and Science (4th annual conference of the Australasian Association for Literature), U Sydney, 6 July 2010

'Samuel Beckett and the Monad'. A Beckett Symposium, University of Balamand, Lebanon, 12 Nov. 2009

'"Despised for their Obviousness": Samuel Beckett's Dogs'. Beckett and Animality: International Conference and Research Opportunities Symposium, University of Reading, 25 Sept. 2009

'Under the Volcano: from Novel to Opera'. Malcolm Lowry: A Centennial Celebration, UBC, Vancouver (23 July 2009)

"Lowry on the Web' [a guided tour of the Lowry website]. Malcolm Lowry: A Centennial Celebration, University of British Columbia (24 July 2009)

also presented at the Malcolm Lowry Centenary Festival, Bluecoat Theatre, Liverpool (31 Oct. 2009)

also presented, English Literature Research Seminar Series, University of Brighton (28 Oct. 2009).

'The Art of Annotation'. University of Macau (22 June 2009)

'Delight in Swine's Draff: Samuel Beckett and the Art of Annotation'. Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 4th Seminar Series, Regent's Park College, Oxford U (25 April 2008)

'"The past in monochrome": (In)voluntary Memory in Krapp's Last Tape'. Beckett in Rome, University of Rome, Tor Vegata (18 April 2008)

'Samuel Beckett and Science'. IRF: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden (11 December 2007)

'"I, of whom I know nothing": Annotation, Biblical Exegesis and Samuel Beckett's "The Unnamable".' Fourth International Conference of the ESTS [European Society for Textual Studies], Vilnius, Lithuania (24 November 2007)

'Paradoxurile Én opera lui Beckett' ['Paradox in the Works of Beckett']. Universitatea de Arta Theatrala si Cinematografia, Bucaresti (6 June 2007)

'Beckett si constiinta europeana' ['Beckett and European Awareness'], joint Romanian / English presentation with Octavian Saiu. Festivalul International de Teatru de la Sibiu (28 May 2007)

'Beyond the Last Ditch: Shades of Swift in Samuel Beckett's "Fingal".' Rewriting the Long Eighteenth Century: David Nichol Smith Seminar in 18th-Century Studies XIII. U Otago (10 April 2007)

'"No Bones About It": Samuel Beckett's Cemeteries'. '"Birth Was the Death of Him": Death, Dying and All That Unfinished Business: An International Conference in Honour of Samuel Beckett's Centenary', U Northampton (3 December 2006) [keynote]

'Samuel Beckett's Watt: Towards a Scholarly Edition'. Textual Scholarship and the History of the Book Conference, U London (24 November 2006)

'"We're not … beginning to mean anything?": Samuel Beckett and Science', Durham U (6 December 2006); also presented Canterbury U (13 December 2006)

'"Fun de partie": 1) Formes du calembour dans Fin de partie [Constantin Grigorut], and 2) Puns and paradigms in Endgame' [Chris Ackerley]. Borderless Beckett: International Samuel Beckett Symposium, Tokyo (29 September 2006)

'Secundum Carnem: Dubious Hypostasis in the Homecoming of Ulysses'. James Joyce 20th International Symposium, Budapest (12 June 2006).

'Samuel Beckett and Anthropomorphic Insolence'. Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2nd Seminar Series, Regent's Park College, Oxford U (9 June 2006)

'The Anxiety of Impotence: Samuel Beckett's Human Wishes as Manifest in Watt.' Beckett at Reading 2006, U Reading (1 April 2006)

'Human Wishes: Samuels Beckett and Johnson': The 12th David Fleeman Memorial Lecture, Johnson Society of Australia, Melbourne (17 September 2005)

'What's Watt?: Towards the Definition of a Text.' Versies en Interpretaties over Genetische Literaruurstudie, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium (10 May 2005).

Also presented at 'Removing the Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Seminar Series', U Tasmania, Hobart (22 May 2005)

Miscellaneous

Editorial Committee, A Salute to the Captain: Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Emeritus Professor J.B. Mackie, 3 September 2010 (Dunedin: U Otago [Alumni Relations Office], 2010), 192 pp.

2010: 'Who-oscope'. Fulcrum 7 (2010): 252-56 [original poem].

2009 (August 23): public lecture, Wagner Society of New Zealand, University of Otago: 'Chantant dans la coupole: Wagnerian Voices in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land'.

2008 (Nov. 19): [with Peter Hayden], public lecture, the Polish Heritage Trust, Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin: 'Joseph Conrad: British? Romantic? Modernist?'

'The Art of Annotation'. Inaugural Professorial Lecture, U Otago. (22 May 2008).
http://www.otago.ac.nz/itunesu/ (Humanities)

'In Memoriam: David Wright'. James Joyce Literary Supplement 22.1 (Spring 2008): 13

Bridge Ethics. NZCBA teaching video [20 minutes], script by Chris Ackerley (2007).

'Hook, Line and Stinker: So-kalled Transgressions in the Very Deep South'. Proceedings of the Cultural Transformations Symposium 2, U Otago, (2003).

'Patrick McCarthy, "Totality and Fragmentation: Lowry, Joyce, and Modern Anxiety".' Malcolm Lowry Review 47-48 (Fall 2000 & Spring 2001): 158-61 '[reply to a plenary address, "Hysterical/Historical Joyce", U Toronto, 14 June 1997]'

Notas. In Malcolm Lowry: Un trueno sobre el Popocatepetl [Selected Poems], trans. R. Vargas, J. E. Pacheo & J. Garcéa Terrés. Editiones Era, México, (2000), pp. 167-71 [ISBN 968-411-464-8]

The Deaths of the Authors, ed. Chris Ackerley, with contributions from friends and colleagues. Dunedin: Dept. of English, (1999), 120 pp. [Festschrift for Dr. William Dean]