Samuel Beckett and trauma /

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Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspective...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Tanaka, Mariko Hori (Editor), Tajiri, Yoshiki, 1964- (Editor), Tsushima, Michiko, 1963- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989
Psychic trauma.
Traumatisme psychique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Psychic trauma
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Trauma symptoms; Beckett and trauma: the father's death and the sea; 'Void cannot go': trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett; Part II: Body and subjectivity; Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett; 'The skin of words': trauma and skin in Watt; Bodily object voices in Embers; Part III: Historical and cultural contexts; Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett; Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo's Bones.

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