Samuel Beckett and pain / edited by Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri, and Michiko Tsushima.

Samuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett’s works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found suffering in human life inevitable, accepted it as a source of inspiration in his writings, and probed...

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Superior document:Faux titre, 372
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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Faux titre ; no. 372.
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Pain as a creative method. "Happily melancholy" : pleasure and pain in early Beckett / Mark Nixon ; Mourning becomes electric : mediating loss in Eh Joe / Graley Herren ; Beckettian pain, in the flesh : singularity, community and "the work" / Garin Dowd ; The body in pain and freedom of the mind : performing Beckett and noh / Mariko Hori Tanaka
  • II. Pain in the age of uncertainty. "Frankly now, is there pain?" : Beckett, medicine and the composition of pain / Peter Fifield ; "Strange pain" : archive, trauma and testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski / David Houston Jones ; Everyday life and the pain of existence in Happy days / Yoshiki Tajiri
  • III. Pain at the limit of the human. "We have our being in justice" : Samuel Beckett's How it is / Jonathan Boulter ; "That or groan" : paining and de-paining in Beckett / Mary Bryden ; The appearance of the human at the limit of representation : Beckett and pain in the experience of language / Michiko Tsushima.