Peeters Publishers have just released Time and Temporality, a new collection of essays on the treatment of time in literary modernism, edited by MDRN, a research lab at the University of Leuven. The book features a chapter from me on Samuel Beckett's use of 'ecological' time in his work. My essay asks whether, given the frequent use of ecological time as an ethical thought experiment in writing associated with the environmental movement, whether Beckett's not-infrequent appeals to evolutionary and geological history offers anything resembling a green ethic. The talk on which my chapter is based can be viewed here:
The book has many other valuable essays, on André Gide, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Henri Bergson, Flann O'Brien, Charles Olson, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and much more besides.