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Samuel Beckett and Trauma.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526121356
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Samuel Beckett and TraumaDDC classification:
  • 848.91409
LOC classification:
  • PR6003.E282 .S268 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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