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Samuel Beckett and trauma /edited by Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526121356
  • 9781526121363
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR6003 .S268 2018
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Contents:
Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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