Tanaka / Unknown / Tajiri Samuel Beckett and trauma

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2135-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Tanaka, Mariko Hori

Tajiri, Yoshiki

Tsushima, Michiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima with Robert Eaglestone
Part I: Trauma symptoms
1. Beckett and trauma: father’s death and the sea – Julie Campbell
2. ‘Void cannot go’: trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett – Nicholas E. Johnson
Part II: Body and subjectivity
3. Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett – David Houston Jones
4. ‘The skin of words’: trauma and skin in Watt – Michiko Tsushima
5. Bodily object voices in Embers – Anna Sigg
Part III: Historical and cultural contexts
6. Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett – Yoshiki Tajiri
7. Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo’s Bones – Conor Carville
8. The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett’s post-war plays – Mariko hori tanaka
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo

Yoshiki Tajiri is Professor of English at University of Tokyo

Michiko Tsushima is an Associate Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan