Tanaka, Mariko Hori. <br/><br/>
Samuel Beckett and Trauma. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (213 pages) 
<br/><br/>Front matter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Trauma symptoms -- Beckett and trauma: the father's death and the sea -- 'Void cannot go': trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett -- Part II: Body and subjectivity -- Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett -- 'The skin of words': trauma and skin in Watt -- Bodily object voices in Embers -- Part III: Historical and cultural contexts -- Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett -- Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo's Bones -- The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett's post-war plays -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526121356 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Beckett, Samuel,-1906-1989-Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Beckett, Samuel,-1906-1989-Psychology.<br/>Pain in literature.<br/>Suffering in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6003.E282 .S268 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>848.91409