Beckett, Technology and the Body
Beckett, Technology and the Body

Author: Ulrika Maude

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521181501

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Critics have often focused on interiority in Beckett's works, privileging the mind over the body. In this intriguing approach, the first sustained analysis of embodiment in Beckett's prose, drama and media works, Ulrika Maude argues that physical and sensory experience is in fact central to the understanding of Beckett's writing. In innovative readings of sight, hearing, touch and movement in the full range of Beckett's works, Ulrika Maude uncovers the author's effort to shed light on embodied experience, paying attention to Beckett's interests in medicine and body-altering technologies such as prostheses. Through these material, bodily concerns Beckett explores wider themes of subjectivity and experience, interiority and exteriority, foregrounding the inextricable relationship between the body, the senses and the self. This important study offers a fascinating approach to Beckett, one in which the body takes its rightful place alongside the mind.

Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body
Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body

Author: Y. Tajiri

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-11-22

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0230624960

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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.

Beckett and Phenomenology
Beckett and Phenomenology

Author: Ulrika Maude

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-10-20

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1441123172

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A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work.

The Body and the Arts
The Body and the Arts

Author: Corinne Saunders

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0230234003

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The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.

Beckett's Art of Salvage
Beckett's Art of Salvage

Author: Julie Bates

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-19

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1107167043

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Introduction: Miscellaneous Rubbish -- Relics -- Heirlooms -- Props -- Treasure -- Conclusion

The Plays of Samuel Beckett
The Plays of Samuel Beckett

Author: Katherine Weiss

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 140814557X

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The Plays of Samuel Beckett provides a stimulating analysis of Beckett's entire dramatic oeuvre, encompassing his stage, radio and television plays. Ideal for students, this major study combines analysis of each play by Katherine Weiss with interveiws and essays from practitioners and scholars.

Beckett and media
Beckett and media

Author: Balazs Rapcsak

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1526145820

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Beckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Beckett and media draws on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such, the book engages with Beckett as a media artist and examines the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation.

Since Beckett
Since Beckett

Author: Peter Boxall

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1441100679

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Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wide array of guises, can be seen to emerge. Since Beckett looks at a number of writers, in different national and political contexts, tracing the way in which Beckett's writing inhabits the contemporary, while at the same time reading back through Beckett to the modernist and proto-modernist forms he inherited. In reading Beckett against the contemporary in this way, Peter Boxall offers both a compelling re-reading of Beckett, and a powerful new analysis of contemporary culture.

Beckett and Embodiment
Beckett and Embodiment

Author: Amanda M. Dennis

Publisher: EUP

Published: 2023-05-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474463003

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Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings. Amanda Dennis is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris.