1. Introduction: 'grammar is in our power' (Stein, 1975, 73); 2. Grammar bound: writings on language; 3. Renarration in the making of Americans and watt; 4. Getting mixed: Lexical renarrations; 5. Lexical renarrations and the goodbye to standard English: Stein's role in the development of Beckett's bilingual English praxis; 6. 'Waste no more time trying to get it right': Beckett and Stein's 'fidelity to failure' (Beckett, 2009d, 42; 2001, 145); 7. Conclusion: 'say it simply. [...] say it simplier' (Stein, 1975, 147); References.
