Beckett and Embodiment : : Body, Space, Agency / / Amanda M. Dennis.
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 as thinke...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Other Becketts : OTBE
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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