Beckett and embodiment : body, space, agency / Amanda M. Dennis

By:

Dennis, Amanda [autor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Other BeckettsPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021Description: XII, 244 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9781474463003
9781474462990

Subject(s):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Crítica i interpretació

Contents:

Conté: Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Embodied Agency: Towards an Ecology of the Subject -- chapter1 From Cartesian Ruins: Rocking Chair Phenomenology -- chapter2 Short-Circuited Rationalism, or How the Body Means -- chapter3 From Dialectics to Infinity: Life Cycles in Molloy, Malone Dies and Endgame -- 4 Radical Indecision: Aporia and Embodied Agency in The Unnamable -- chapter5 Style and the Violence of Passivity: How It Is -- chapter6 Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Quad and Agency -- chapter7 The Body and Creation: Worstward Ho -- Conclusion: Embedded in the World: Beckett, Late Modernism, Earth-Body Art -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary: "Argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings" -- Worldcat

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	820 (bec) DEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Novetat		1900087483

Reimpressions: 2023

Inclou bibliografia (pàgines 216-234). Índex

"Argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings" -- Worldcat

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