Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction; M.Bryden & M.Topping PART I: READING ENCOUNTERS The Embarrassment of Meeting: Burroughs, Beckett, Proust (and Deleuze); M.Bryden The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiolotics and Proust; C.M.Drohan Different Essences and Essential Differences: Proust versus Deleuze; E.Fülöp Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2; J.Hughes Proust/Deleuze: Mnemosyne, Goddess or Factory?; P.Mengue Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature; A.Uhlmann PART II: VISUAL, CINEMATIC AND SONIC ENCOUNTERS Apprenticeship, Philosophy, and the 'Secret Pressures of the Work of Art' in Deleuze, Beckett, Proust and Ruiz; or Remaking the Recherche; G.Dowd Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton; P.ffrench 'Staring Sightlessly': Prousts Presence in Beckett's Absence; C.Lunberry Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett; F.M.Maier The Long and the Short of it... Moving Images in Proust and Beckett; J.C.Murphy The Gift of Time: Reading Proust Reading Deleuze Reading Proust; J.Reid PART III: BODILY ENCOUNTERS Reverberating Inwards: Beckett Reading Proust; M.Bryden PART IV: BODILY AND SENSORY ENCOUNTERS Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett; J.M.Jeffers Coldness and Cruelty as Performance in Deleuze's Proust; I.Pace Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la Recherché du Temps Perdu; M.Topping Murphy's Madeleine; A.A.Watt EPILOGUE: AN IMAGINARY ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PROUST, BECKETT AND DELEUZE ...Proust...Beckett...Deleuze: A Quad Regained; J.Cornette References Index