Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology : Perception, Attention, Imagery (Historicizing Modernism)

Powell, Joshua

Bloomsbury Academic（2020/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350091726
• DDC分類 848.91409

Full Description

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind. Samuel Beckett and Psychology is an innovative study of the author's engagement with key concepts in early experimental psychology and rapidly developing scientific ideas about perception, attention and mental imagery. Through innovative new readings of Beckett's later dramatic and prose works, the book reveals the links between his aesthetic method and the methodologies of experimental psychology through the 20th century. Covering important later works including Happy Days, Not I and Footfalls, Samuel Beckett and Psychology sheds important new light on Beckett's depictions of the workings of the embodied mind.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Introduction: Literary Experiments and the Work of Samuel Beckett
1. Experimental Transitions
2. Attention and Speech Perception in Not I
3. Face Reading and Attentional Management in That Time
4. Inattention in Footfalls
5. Beckett and the Mental Image
6. Percept and Image in Nohow On
Conclusion: Experimental Beckett
Bibliography
Index