Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to...
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Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally Front matter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Trauma symptoms -- Beckett and trauma: the father's death and the sea -- 'Void cannot go': trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett -- Part II: Body and subjectivity -- Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett -- 'The skin of words': trauma and skin in Watt -- Bodily object voices in Embers -- Part III: Historical and cultural contexts -- Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett -- Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo's Bones -- The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett's post-war plays -- Index
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...
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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 it to gain deeper insight into the difficult and emotionally demanding processes of artistic creation, practice and performance. Acknowledging the recent developments in the study of pain in literature and culture, this volume explores various aspects of pain in Beckett's works, a subject which has
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Pain as a Creative Force; 1. "Happily melancholy": Pleasure and Pain in Early Beckett; 2. Mourning Becomes Electric: Mediating Loss in Eh Joe; 3. Beckettian Pain, In the Flesh: Singularity, Community and "the Work""; 4. The Body in Pain and Freedom of the Mind: Performing Beckett and Noh; II. Pain in the Age of Uncertainty; 5 "Frankly now, is there pain?": Beckett, Medicine and the Composition of Pain; 6. "Strange Pain": Archive, Trauma and Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski
7. Everyday Life and the Pain of Existence in Happy DaysIII. Pain at the Limit of the Human; 8. "We have our being in justice": Samuel Beckett's How It Is; 9. "That or Groan": Paining and De-paining in Beckett; 10. The Appearance of the Human at the Limit of Representation: Beckett and Pain in the Experience of Language; Contributors; Index
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: I. Pain as a creative method. "Happily melancholy" : pleasure and pain in early Beckett
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: II. Pain in the age of uncertainty. "Frankly now, is there pain?" : Beckett, medicine and the composition of pain
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.: III. Pain at the limit of the human. "We have our being in justice" : Samuel Beckett's How it is
