Samuel Beckett and trauma (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Tanaka, Mariko Hori; Tsushima, Michiko; Tajiri, Yoshiki

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Samuel Beckett and trauma is the first book that specifically addresses the question of trauma in Beckett, taking into account the recent rise of trauma studies in literature. Beckett is an author whose works are strongly related to the psychological and historical trauma of our age. His works not only explore the multifarious aspects of trauma but also radically challenge our conception of trauma itself by the unique syntax of language, aesthetics of fragmentation, bodily malfunctions and the creation of void. Instead of simply applying current trauma theories to Beckett, this book provides new perspectives that will expand and alter them by employing other theoretical frameworks in literature, theatre, art, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It will inspire anybody interested in literature and trauma, including specialists and students working on twentieth-century world literature, comparative studies, trauma studies and theatre /art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526121363
• Artikelnr.: 57471265

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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