Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose / / Jonathan Boulter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Boulter, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Other Becketts : OTBE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett’s short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett’s presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose. These texts are notoriously difficult yet utterly compelling. This compelling difficulty arises from Beckett’s radical dismantling of the idea of the human. His short texts offer instead an image of a being who may be posthumous, or ultimately beyond categories of life and death. And yet, despite this dismantling, the narrators of these texts still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of ‘world’ can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world.Key Features:Provides a philosophical reading of Samuel BeckettRethinks Beckett in relation to the posthumanContributes to a relatively ignored aspect of Samuel Beckett's writing, the short prose

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Beckett, Heidegger, the World -- 1 Homelessness: The Expelled, The Calmative, The End -- 2 The Poverty of World: Texts for Nothing -- 3 Spaces of Ruin: All Strange Away, Imagination Dead Imagine, The Lost Ones, Ping, Lessness -- 4 Space and Trauma: Fizzles -- 5 Fables of Posthuman Space: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho -- Conclusion: ‘neither’ -- References -- Index