Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology: Perception, Attention, Imagery

by Joshua Powell, David Tucker (Editor), Erik Tonning (Editor), Matthew Feldman (Editor)

Overview

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind. Samuel Beckett and Psychology is an innovative study of the author's engagement with key concepts in early experimental psychology and rapidly developing scientific ideas about perception, attention and mental imagery. Through innovative new readings of Beckett's later dramatic and prose works, the book reveals the links between his aesthetic method and the methodologies of experimental psychology through the 20th century. Covering important later works including Happy Days, Not I and Footfalls, Samuel Beckett and Psychology sheds important new light on Beckett's depictions of the workings of the embodied mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350237421
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/29/2021
Series:	Historicizing Modernism
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Joshua Powell is a Lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK.

David Tucker is Associate Lecturer at The American College of Greece, Athens. He is the editor of British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 (2011).

Erik Tonning is Professor of English at NLA University College, Norway, and Professor II of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.

Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professional Fellow at the University of York, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Introduction: Literary Experiments and the Work of Samuel Beckett
1. Experimental Transitions
2. Attention and Speech Perception in Not I
3. Face Reading and Attentional Management in That Time
4. Inattention in Footfalls
5. Beckett and the Mental Image
6. Percept and Image in Nohow On
Conclusion: Experimental Beckett
Bibliography
Index