Die Artistik des Misslingens. Ersticktes Lachen im Theater Becketts. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1979, 3 Abhandlung. Heidelberg: Winter, 1979. 60pp.
Translated into English as "The Art of Failure: The Stifled Laugh in Beckett's Theater." Bucknell Review ( 1981), 26(1):139-189.
Partially reprinted as "Counter-Sensical Comedy and Audience Response in Beckett's Waiting for Godot" in Gestos: Teoria y Practica del Teatro (November 1987), 2(4):11-35.
Partially reprinted in Steven Connor, ed., Waiting for Godot and Endgame, pp. 55-70. New Casebooks. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Reprinted in Prospecting ( 1979), pp. 152-193