Format:
1 Online-Ressource (257 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350112353
,
9781350112339
Series Statement:
Historicizing Modernism
Content:
"Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre - from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame . Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores 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the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics."--
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
,
Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350112322
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Little, James Samuel Beckett in Confinement : The Politics of Closed Space London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350112353
