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Beckett and Embodiment
Amanda M. Dennis
其他書名
Body, Space, Agency
出版Edinburgh University Press, 2023-05-22
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyPhilosophy / MetaphysicsPhilosophy / Movements / Phenomenology
ISBN14744630029781474463003
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PaVFzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency 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. Amanda Dennis is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris.