Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama
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Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

About this book

The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett's drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett's dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett's drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett's drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett's re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781000155372
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia irlandesa

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Dehiscent Bodies: From ‘Le Kid’ to Eleutheria
  11. 3 Intercorporeal Performances and the Hauntings of History in Waiting for Godot and Endgame
  12. 4 ‘This visible flesh’: Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days
  13. 5 Mimes and Fragments: Corporeal Laboratories
  14. 6 Radiophonic Embodiments
  15. 7 The Flesh of the Screen and the ‘eye of prey’: Beckett’s Film
  16. 8 Unhomely Semblances and the Televisual Matrix
  17. 9 The Late Theatre: Performing Traces of Embodiment
  18. 10 Mutated Bodies: Stage Performances of Beckett’s Late Prose Texts
  19. 11 Conclusion: Re-embodying Beckett’s Drama in the Twenty-first Century
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index