Samuel Beckett And The Prosthetic Body

Author : Y. Tajiri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230624960
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body written by Y. Tajiri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the representation of the body in Beckett's work, focusing on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', it aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was registered.

Author : Angela B. Moorjani
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042015999
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Angela B. Moorjani and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Beckett and the quest for meaning (Martin Esslin). - Beckett's tonic laughter (Manfred Pfister). - The magic triangle: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Arno Schmidt (Friedhelm Rathjen). - Beckett performed in Italy (Annamaria Cascetta). - Beckett and synaesthesia (Yoshiki Tajiri). - Beckett versus the reader (Michael Guest).

Author : P. McTighe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137275332
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama written by P. McTighe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other.

Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526153785
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett's afterlives written by Jonathan Bignell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. The collection employs interrelated concepts of adaptation, remediation and appropriation to reflect on Beckett’s own evolving approach to crossing genre boundaries and to analyse the ways in which contemporary artists across different media and diverse cultural contexts – including the UK, Europe, the USA and Latin America – continue to engage with Beckett. The book offers fresh insights into how his work has kept inspiring both practitioners and audiences in the twenty-first century, operating through methodologies and approaches that aim to facilitate and establish the study of modern-day adaptations, not just of Beckett but other (multimedia) authors as well.

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836488
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prosthetic Imagination written by Peter Boxall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319753991
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics written by Tim Lawrence and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155374
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama written by Anna McMullan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett’s drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett’s re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

Author : Boulter Jonathan Boulter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474430287
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose written by Boulter Jonathan Boulter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose. These texts are notoriously difficult yet utterly compelling. This compelling difficulty arises from Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. His short texts offer instead an image of a being who may be posthumous, or ultimately beyond categories of life and death. And yet, despite this dismantling, the narrators of these texts still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world.Key Features:Provides a philosophical reading of Samuel BeckettRethinks Beckett in relation to the posthumanContributes to a relatively ignored aspect of Samuel Beckett's writing, the short prose

Author : Kirsty Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472510356
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability Theatre and Modern Drama written by Kirsty Johnston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The book's first part surveys disability theatre's primary principles, critical terms, internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama, it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the book's second part, leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama, demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative, valuable and timely ways.

Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144117852X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.