James Little

Samuel Beckett in Confinement

The Politics of Closed Space

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre - from the asylums central to Murphyand Wattto the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godotand Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinementexplores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett's work. Covering the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastropheand the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics.

Produktdetails

• Historicizing Modernism
• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781350243224
• ISBN-10: 1350243221
• Artikelnr.: 60597085

Autorenporträt

James Little is a postdoctoral researcher at Charles University, Prague and Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Illustrations Notes on the Text Introduction: Beckett's Spatial Politics 1 Images of Confinement: Proust
Dream of Fair to Middling Women 2 The Ethics of Writing Confinement: 'Dante and the Lobster'
'Fingal'
Murphy 3 'Vaguening' Confinement: Watt 4 'Undoing' Confinement: 'The End'
'The Expelled'
Molloy
Malone Dies 5 Political Pentimenti: Waiting for Godot
Endgame 6 Learning to Say 'Not I': The Unnamable 7 Redoing Not I in 'Non-A' 8 'The Limits of Interpretation': Imagination Dead Imagine
All Strange Away 9 The 'Anethics' of Staging Confinement: 'Mongrel Mime'
Catastrophe Conclusion: 'Mongrel' Space Works Cited