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	Vivian Mercier: Assessments
		Vivian Mercier, the Irish critic, scholar and teacher, died on November 4 in a London hospital.
		Mercier then moved on to the French nouveau roman, which shared a common intellectual source with Beckett and a common debt to the ideas of Bergson and the techniques of surrealism.
		Vivian Mercier's kindness to students, his generous encouragement and help to young scholars, and his collegiality were legendary.
	homepage.eircom.net /~writing/041.VivianAssessments.html (800 words)

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		At the outset I must admit that this book irritated me. It is introduced by a ‘prologue (spoken by the author in his own Person).’ There seems to be no reason for the ancient play formula to be used as a preface to a piece of criticism.
		It is offered as a ‘rather personal view of its subject.’ This may explain the various attempts made throughout the work to tie up Beckett the man with his creatures, despite glaring inconsistencies which, be it said, are pointed out by the author himself.
		Tyrrell was before Mercier’s time or he would have known another anecdote and so have suspected the one quoted.
	www.english.fsu.edu /jobs/num03/Num3Leventhal.htm (782 words)

	Vivian Mercier, 70, Irish Literary Critic - New York Times
		Vivian Mercier, an Irish literary critic and teacher whose published works included a major study on the work of Samuel Beckett, died Saturday in London, The Irish Times reported today.
		Mercier taught at New York University, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
		Mercier was also co-editor of an anthology, ''A Thousand Years of Irish Prose,'' and was at work on a ''A New Critical History of Anglo-Irish Literature.'' He was a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, among other publications.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DB1F3CF934A35752C1A96F948260 (261 words)

	Beckett - Gurnow's "No Symbol Where None Intended: A Study of Symbolism and Allusion in Samuel Beckett's Waiting ...
		Yet Vivian Mercier does make a valid remark as to the necessity of Godot to be God: "Obviously those who wait on stage must wait for something that they and the audience consider extremely important.
		In Vivian Mercier's words, "...it is hard to put one's finger on anything specific they [Estragon and Vladimir] have read or studied" (48).
		Mercier claims, due to Racine's strong influence upon Beckett, that the playwright tries to adhere, as closely as the play will allow, to the Aristotelian dictum that a play should span, at best, the course of 24 hours in order to remain aesthetically and cathartically effective (76).
	www.themodernword.com /beckett/paper_gurnow.html (6029 words)

	Mercier Watches
		Vivian Mercier 1: 2: may sound like a somewhat disparaging criticism, Mercier was in actuality one of the foremost Beckett scho 8: [http: homepage.tinet.ie/~writing/04.VivianMercier.html A very brief bio] 10: Category:1919 birthsMercier, Vivian* 11: Category:1989 deathsMercier, Vivian
		Gerry Mercier 1: '''Gerald Mercier ''' (born November 9, 1942 in Claresholm 3: Mercier was educated at St. Paul's College and the Univ 5: d 1981.
		In 1947 he bega 37: ich was famously described by the critic Vivian Mercier as 'a play in which nothing happens, twice'.
	www.lottery-news.net /dust16910-mercier_watches.html (556 words)

	Amazon.ca: Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders: Books: Vivian Mercier,Eilis Dillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		'Mercier was one of the last of the gentleman scholars...
		Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing.
		Informed by a wealth and diversity of scholarship, and written in a highly accessible style, this book stands as a memorial to the achievement of Vivian Mercier and as an important contribution to the study of Irish literature.
	www.amazon.ca /Modern-Irish-Literature-Sources-Founders/dp/0198120745 (590 words)

	Vivian Mercier, Irish scholar & critic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vivian Mercier was born in Clara, County Offaly, Ireland.
		Vivian Mercier was one of the foremost scholars and critics of Anglo-Irish literature, particularly the work of Samuel Beckett.
		to whom Vivian Mercier was married from 1974 until his death in 1989.
	homepage.eircom.net /~writing/04.VivianMercier.html (184 words)

	This Island we live on - My Place Your Place - An Interview with Andrew Morrow
		In 1974 Eilís married Vivian Mercier, Professor of English in the University of Colorado at Boulder.
		Vivian's death in 1989 was followed by the death in 1990 of Eilís's daughter Máire, who was a violinist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
		Her last two published works were Children of Bach (1993), a children's novel set in Hungary at the time of the Holocaust, and her edition of Vivian Mercier's posthumous Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders (Oxford, 1994).
	www.ulster.ac.uk /thisisland/modules/myplaceyourplace/edillon.html (534 words)

	Beckett/Beckett, by Vivian Mercier
		Thirteen years younger than Beckett and like him of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Vivian Mercier attended the same school and university, and first became aware of him in 1934.
		From then on he followed his progress with keen interest, and his analysis of the many contrasts and contradictions in Beckett's work is constantly enlivened by his appreciation of Beckett the man.
		A great many subjects are discussed, for Vivian Mercier is truly, as Hugh Kenner said, 'polymath'...
	www.eilisdillon.com /044.Beckett.html (516 words)

	The Chippewa Falls Online Community - Archives
		Vivian Mercier has lived in the same neighborhood for 50 years and can't recall having a problem with her neighbors.
		Mercier, who lives at 1216 Warren St., told the Chippewa Falls City Council on Tuesday evening when she goes to bed she wonders: “Am I'm going to be waking up to this terrible odor in the morning?
		They have not directly talked to their neighbor, but thought bringing the problem to the council would be a way of resolving the issue.
	www.chippewa.com /articles/2006/03/08/news/news2.txt (386 words)

	Eilís Dillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Having married the critic Vivian Mercier after her first husband's death, she divided her time between Dublin and California during the 1970s and 1980s, continuing to write historical novels and other books.
		Eilís Dillon served on the Arts Council, the International Commission for English in the Liturgy, and the boards of the Irish Writers' Union and the Irish Writers' Centre.
		Her last publication was her edition of Vivian Mercier's posthumous Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders (Oxford, 1994).
	www.irishwriters-online.com /eilisdillon.html (338 words)

	Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site
		Those unjustly satirized, who did not respond, permanently lost half of their honor-price.(7) Wrongly commited satires were only removed once a praise poem was issued to replace the satire.
		According to Vivian Mercier (8), there were generally three different categories of theáer.
		Mercier explains this one as "a quatrain of praise and therein is found a word on the verge of satire." This type embodies those that look like praise but which are actually derrogatory.
	www.clannada.org /culture_words.php (1398 words)

	Remembering Samuel Beckett: 'Waiting for Godot - Page 2 - Literature Network Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The characters are pathetically likeable, and their interactions with each other, although representative of a bleak existence, have their weight of charm and comedy.
		Vivian Mercier wasn’t criticising Beckett — it was meant as a compliment.
		Of the two he is in command, calling Estragon "Gogo" (the mind telling the body to move), and obsessing over things like his hat (social self-identity) and other conceptual issues point to this interpretation.
	www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?p=216883 (1529 words)

	Theater \| Wait until dark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kuntz’s excitable Estragon reacts the same way every time he’s reminded that the pair are chained to this spot in suspended time, whiling away the hours deprived of carrots and suicide, because they are " waiting for Godot " : he winces and hugs his head.
		It is perhaps a mark of its greatness that, though Godot has been famously described (by the critic Vivian Mercier) as a play in which " nothing happens.
		But it’s good enough, with Pendleton better cast as the more rational and reflective of Beckett’s companions in limbo, Vladimir, than he was as King Lear (to whom he brought an Alzheimer’s-like frailty in the 2000 New Rep production).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/02650463.htm (731 words)

	Vivian Mercier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vivian Mercier (1919 - 1989) was an Irish literary critic.
		He is perhaps best known for his famous summation of the plot of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "[N]othing happens, twice." Ironically, despite what may sound like a somewhat disparaging criticism, Mercier was in actuality one of the foremost Beckett scholars of his day, and wrote extensively about Godot.
		He also wrote a critically acclaimed study of Beckett's work as a whole, Beckett/Beckett.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vivian_Mercier (170 words)

	Brief History of the ACIS-West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was the first meeting of the National organization and was heavily attended by West Coast Irish studies enthusiasts.
		Some of those in attendance were Bill Potts, Nora Mcguinness, Robert and Becky Tracy, Vivian Mercier, Steve Arkin, Jim and Pat O’Brien, Marian Robinson, Audrey Eyler, Rob Garret, and Timothy O’Keefe.
		They also organized the second meeting at UC Santa Barbara in 1986 under the auspices of Vivian Mercier, (English UCSB).
	www.unco.edu /irish/acis_history.html (173 words)

	Oxford University Press: Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders: Vivian Mercier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave rise to the revival of Irish literature in English.
		"What one gets [with Mercier] is the presence of a genial, well-stocked, humane mind lovingly immersed in its subject-matter, unbuttoned and anecdotal but painstaking in its scholarship.
		Mercier taught himself Irish in his mid-thirties, and some of the fruits of that labour are evident here in his authoritative discussion of translations of Gaelic texts.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/25027/subject/IrishLiterature/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5ODEyMDc0Mg== (317 words)

	John Millington Synge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sean O'Casey, the next major dramatist to write for the Abbey, knew Synge's work well and attempted to do for the Dublin working classes what his predecessor had done for the rural poor.
		The critic Vivian Mercier was amongst the first to recognise Samuel Beckett's debt to Synge.
		Mercier points out parallels between Synge's casts of tramps, beggars and peasants and many of the figures in Beckett's novels and dramatic works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Millington_Synge (1758 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mercier's wide reading in French literature is always evident.
		Vivian Mercier, late Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
		The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198120742 (607 words)

	Review: 'Beckett and Joyce: friendship and fiction' by
		The recent book-length criticism by John Pilling, Katharine Worth, Vivian Mercier, and Steven Rosen, for example, has obviously not been consulted.
		There are, however, a variety of lapses which should be corrected in a second printing.
		In her discussion of Mercier and Camier she mentions that the novel is ‘narrated in the third person, except for the beginning of chapter 4, which is told in the first person.’(100) Chapter 4 begins in this way: ‘The field lay spread before them.
	english.fsu.edu /jobs/num06/Num6Friedman.htm (1351 words)

	American Conference for Irish Studies
		Vivian Mercier offered to present himself as official host, which allowed ACIS/West entrée to wonderful university facilities.
		The occasion was the eve of Professor Mercier's impending retirement.
		Soon enough, though, I chose early retirement and faced the option of playing the Vivian Mercier role.
	www.acisweb.com /region.php?content=w&link=hist (1870 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Raymond Queneau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Saint Glinglin is a tragicomic masterpiece, a novel that critic Vivian Mercier said "can be mentioned without incongruity in the company" of Mann's Magic Mountain and Joyce's Ulysses.
		"By turns strange, beautiful, ludicrous, and intellectually stimulating" (as Mercier goes on to say), Saint Glinglin retells the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father in an array of styles ranging from direct narrative, soliloquy, and interior monologue to quasi-biblical verse.
		In this strange tale of a land where it never rains, where a bizarre festival is held every Saint Glinglin's Day, Queneau deploys fractured syntax, hidden structures, self-imposed constraints, playful allusions, and puns and neologisms to explore the most basic concepts of culture.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/queneau.html (1929 words)

	New Hibernia Review v5 n2 Iris Éireannach Nua
		We close this issue with “Radharc ar gCúl / A Backward Glance,” which welcomes four thankful reconsiderations of Vivian Mercier’s 1962 intertwining of Gaelic and Anglo-Irish literatures, The Irish Comic Tradition.
		Mercier’s study, he finds, “is a ‘secondary’ source that became primary.” Indeed, the 1962 book anticipated such later critical frameworks as Cultural Studies and the new historicism.
		She recalls Mercier as continually surrounded by books— volumes that bore witness not only to his scholarship, but also to his gracious, expansive nature.
	www.stthomas.edu /irishstudies/v8n4.htm (1402 words)

	California Magazine
		Those four little words, of course, signal the climax of the two-hour play that owns world renown for showcasing the exquisite tedium of everyday life as it batters and erodes expectations and hope.
		It is a play so spare, yet it celebrates futility and disappointment so excruciatingly, that the late Irish critic Vivian Mercier, an admirer, was moved to describe it as a two-act performance in which “nothing happens twice.’’
		McGovern laughs at the cheeky characterization of Waiting for Godot, and still finds it amusing that the Samuel Beckett play he’s been appearing in for more than half his life remains the most dissected theater production of the last half-century.
	www.alumni.berkeley.edu /calmag/200611/show.asp (1389 words)

	beckettcentenaryfestival.com
		Beckett also began to write his fourth novel, Mercier et Camier.
		In a much-quoted article, the critic Vivian Mercier wrote that Beckett “has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats.
		What’s more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.” (Irish Times, 18 February 1956, p.
	www.solasnua.org /beckett/bio.html (778 words)

	Mercier, Modern Irish Literature: Sources & Founders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, in which he traced the continuity of attitudes and subjects of Irish writers from pre-Christian times to the present.
		Professor Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave rise to the revival of Irish literature in English.
		In his immense learning, his addiction to the personal digression, his pedantic worry and scrupulous citation of sources, Mercier was a gentleman-scholar of a kind no longer produced, but he put these estimable qualities at the service of an unremittingly modern sensibility.
	homepage.eircom.net /~writing/045.MILSF.html (277 words)

	Vivian Mercier Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Vivian Mercier Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Modern Irish Literature marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing.
		Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave...
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Vivian_Mercier (157 words)

	Mercier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Afred Mercier (1816-1894), Creole medician and writer
		Eugène Mercier, the creator of the Maison de champagne Mercier
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercier (94 words)

	TIME.com: With an Irish Brogue -- Aug. 18, 1952 -- Page 1
		1000 YEARS OF IRISH PROSE (607 pp.)—Edited by Vivian Mercier and David H.
		But for the next 50 years Ireland kept passing out literary surprises, for first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty.
		In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every step is a literary gem.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,816758,00.html (594 words)

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