The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett's Drama

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44692-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2679 g

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

Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McTighe, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Haptics, Aesthetics, Philosophy 1. Eye: Failing, Myopic, Grainy 2. Ear: Full of Relentless Echoes 3. Mouth: Trying to Tell it All, Failing 4. Skin, Space, Place 5. On the One Hand. (The One that Writes the Body) 6. On the Other Hand. (The One that Refuses to Touch) Conclusion: Departing Bodies, Between Doubting Thomas and Noli me Tangere ?

Über Autor(innen)

Trish McTighe is a teaching assistant in the department of Drama Studies in the School of Creative Arts at Queen s University Belfast.