Beckett's Breath : : Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts /

Beckett's Breath : : Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts / / Sozita Goudouna.

Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett’s thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Goudouna, Sozita,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance : ECSMDP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION: IN THE SAME BREATH − FROM THE BLACK BOX TO THE WHITE CUBE AND BEYOND
  • PART I RESPIRATION, DISCOURSE AND THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY
  • 1 DEEPTIME: BREATH AND THE LOOK OF NON-ART
  • 2 THE DURATIONAL TURN: ABSORPTION AND THE SPECIFICITY OF TEMPORALITY
  • PART II (RE)PRESENTING BREATH
  • 3 SHORTNESS OF BREATH: BECKETT’S BREATH IN CONTEXT
  • 4 EMPTIED OF THEATRE: BREATH AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF DISEMBODIMENT
  • PART III THE EXHALED FIELD
  • 5 WASTE OF BREATH: THE READYMADE AS A STAGE SET
  • 6 INTERMEDIAL BREATH: DEFYING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DISPLAYING AND STAGING
  • 7 INVESTIGATING THE MATERIALITY OF RESPIRATION IN DIFFERENT MEDIA
  • CONCLUSION: THE AFTERLIVES OF BREATH – BREATHE, BREATHE AGAIN . . . BREATHE BETTER
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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