Amanda M. Dennis

Beckett and Embodiment (eBook, PDF)

Body, Space, Agency

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474463010
• Artikelnr.: 72412856

Autorenporträt

Amanda M. Dennis is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris. She co-edited the recent volume Samuel Beckett and the Nonhuman (Brill, 2020), and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, among other places. She has held fellowships and visiting lectureships in France, the US, the UK and Spain, and she is the author of the novel Her Here (Bellevue Literary Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Embodied Agency: Towards an Ecology of the Subject
1. From Cartesian Ruins: Rocking Chair Phenomenology
2. Short-Circuited Rationalism, or How the Body Means
3. From Dialectics to Infinity: Life Cycles in Molloy, Malone Dies and
Endgame
4. Radical Indecision: Aporia and Embodied Agency in The Unnamable
5. Style and the Violence of Passivity: How It Is
6. Compulsive Bodies, Creative Bodies: Quad
7. The Body and Creation: Worstward Ho
8. Conclusion: Embedded in the World: Beckett, Late Modernism, Earth-Body
Art
Index