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1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) |
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New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century |
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New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction to Beckett's "absurdist" excess -- Part I. Contagion and Accessibility : Revolutionary Beckett. 2. Repetition, deliberation, and an other power : The paradox as practice -- 3. The liberating laughter of "Nearly There" : Beckett's solidarity-building dramas -- 4. Under-the-radar derision and anger : Becoming revolutionary in/through Beckett's fiction -- Part II. Script Evaluation and Enrichment : Evolutionary Beckett. 5. Beckett's "script multiplication and enrichment" : Rejecting toxic disjunctions and seeking inclusivity -- 6. Evaluation, expulsion, expansion, and reframing : Building processing speed and tolerance to cognitive strain -- 7. Conclusion |
| Summary |
The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Becketts Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Becketts works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, exploitation, and repression, alongside unprecedented demands for high-volume information-processing and connectivity. Part I shows that, in generating consistent flows of solidarity-based angry laughter, Becketts works sabotage coercive couplings of the subject to social machines by translating subordination and repression into processes rather than data of experience. Through an examination of Becketts attack on gender/ class-related normative injunctions, the book shows that Becketts works can generate solidarity and action-oriented affects in readers/ spectators regardless of their training in textual analysis. Part II proposes that Becketts works can weaken the cognitive dominance of constrictive "frames" in readers/ audiences, so that toxic ideological formations such as the association of safety and comfort with simplicity and "sameness" are rejected and more complex cognitive operations are welcomed instead--a process that bolsters the minds ability to operate at ease with increasingly complex, malleable, extensible, and inclusive frames, as well as with increasing volumes of information |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Cristina Ionica teaches English, Film, Writing, and Professional Communication courses at Fanshawe College in London, Canada. Her research has been published in ESC: English Studies in Canada, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, MLS: Modern Language Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, and Horror Studies |
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Print version record |
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
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Theatre studies.
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Fiction & related items.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literary Criticism -- Drama.
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Performing Arts -- Theater -- General.
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Fiction -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030349028 |
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3030349020 |
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