Beckett Beyond the Normal

Kennedy, Seán (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2022/08発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2022/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474460477
• DDC分類 828.91409

Full Description

This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in 'abnormals' and 'degenerates'? How did he reconceive 'the human' in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett's voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal.

Contents

Abbreviations

'Here all is strange': Beckett beyond the normal, Seán Kennedy

1 Murphy and the Tao of Autism, Joseph Valente

2 Narrating Disruption: Realist Fiction and the Politics of Form in Watt, William Davies

3 'no human shape': Unformed Life in The Unnamable, Byron Heffer

4 Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine, Seán Kennedy

5 'He wants to know if it hurts!': Suffering beyond Redemption in Waiting for Godot, Hannah Simpson

6 'as if the sex matters': Beckett, Barthes and Endgame in Love, James Brophy

7 Beckett's Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days, Nic Barilar

8 Beckett's Safe Words: Normalising Torture in How It Is, Dominic Walker

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index