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Beckett and Embodiment : Body, Space, Agency /

Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agencyAccents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60's and 80'sThe first study of Beckett and Merleau-Ponty...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dennis, Amanda M. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gontarski, S. E. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Other Becketts : OTBE
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction Embodied Agency: Towards an Ecology of the Subject
  • 1. From Cartesian Ruins: Rocking Chair Phenomenology
  • 2. Short-Circuited Rationalism, or How the Body Means
  • 3. From Dialectics to Infinity: Life Cycles in Molloy, Malone Dies and Endgame
  • 4. Radical Indecision: Aporia and Embodied Agency in The Unnamable
  • 5. Style and the Violence of Passivity: How It Is
  • 6. Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Quad and Agency
  • 7. The Body and Creation: Worstward Ho
  • Conclusion: Embedded in the World: Beckett, Late Modernism, Earth-Body Art
  • Bibliography
  • Index