Beckett and Phenomenology

Beckett and Phenomenology

Beckett and Phenomenology

Beckett and Phenomenology

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Overview

A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both comparing and contrasting his work with key figures in phenomenology and analysing phenomenological themes and their dramatization in Beckett's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441123176
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/22/2011
Series: Continuum Literary Studies , #182
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ulrika Maude is a Senior Lecturer in Beckett Studies and Modernism in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Reading.

Matthew Feldman is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Northampton, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Beckettian Phenomenologies? Ulrika Maude (University of Durham) and Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton) PART I: BECKETT AND PHENOMENOLOGY 1. ‘But what was this pursuit of meaning, in this indifference to meaning?': Beckett, Husserl and ‘Meaning Creation', Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton) 2. Phenomenologies of the Nothing: Democritus, Heidegger, Beckett, Shane Weller (University of Kent at Canterbury) 3. Beckett and Sartre: The Nauseous Character of All Flesh, Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London) 4. ‘Material of a Strictly Peculiar Order': Beckett, Merleau-Ponty and Perception, Ulrika Maude (University of Durham) PART II: BECKETT'S PHENOMENOLOGIES 5. Between Art-world and Life-world: Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Mark Nixon (University of Reading) 6. Murphydurke, or towards a Phenomenology of Immaturity, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania) 7. Bodily Histories: Beckett and the Phenomenological Approach to the Other, Steven Matthews (Oxford Brookes University) 8. What Remains of Beckett: Evasion and History, Daniel Katz (Université de Paris VII) 9. Beckett's Ghost Dramas: Monitoring a Phenomenology of Sleep, Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) 10. Living the Unnamable: A Phenomenology of Reading, Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia) 11. The ‘Distinct Context of Relevant Knowledge': Beckett's ‘Yellow' and the Phenomenology of Annotation, Chris Ackerley (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) Index

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