Beckett and embodiment : body, space, agency /

Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dennis, Amanda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Series:Other Becketts.
Subjects:
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989
Literary theory.
Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
Literature: history & criticism.
Philosophy.
Literature & literary studies.
Humanities.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 8. Conclusion: Embedded in the World: Beckett, Late Modernism, Earth-Body Art.

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