Beckett's Intuitive Spectator

Me to Play
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-91517-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2621 g

Reihe: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century

Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this book charts the processes of how an audience member’s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett’s film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiang, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Intuition of Loss in Beckett’s Radio Plays.- 3. Film and the Ecstatic Spectator.- 4. Time out from the World: Respite in Beckett’s Stage plays.- 5. The Disengaging Beckettian Television Audience and the Monument to Loss.- 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest is in the intersection between literature and the Philosophy of Time and Mind.