Samuel Beckett and Pain

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3523-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 372, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Samuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett’s works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found suffering in human life inevitable, accepted it as a source of inspiration in his writings, and probed it to gain deeper insight into the difficult and emotionally demanding processes of artistic creation, practice and performance. Acknowledging the recent developments in the study of pain in literature and culture, this volume explores various aspects of pain in Beckett’s works, a subject which has been heretofore only sporadically noted. The topics discussed include Beckett’s aesthetics and pain, pain as loss and trauma, pain in relation to palliation, pain at the experience of the limit, pain as archive, and pain as part of everyday life and language. This volume is characterized by its plural, interdisciplinary perspectives covering the fields of literature, theatre, art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. By suggesting more diverse paths in Beckett studies, the authors hope to make a lasting contribution to contemporary literary studies and other relevant fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tanaka, Mariko Hori

Tajiri, Yoshiki

Tsushima, Michiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Pain as a Creative Force
Mark Nixon: “Happily melancholy”: Pleasure and Pain in Early Beckett
Graley Herren: Mourning Becomes Electric: Mediating Loss in Eh Joe
Garin Dowd: Beckettian Pain, In the Flesh: Singularity, Community and “the Work”
Mariko Hori Tanaka: The Body in Pain and Freedom of the Mind: Performing Beckett and Noh
Pain in the Age of Uncertainty
Peter Fifield: “Frankly now, is there pain?”: Beckett, Medicine and the Composition of Pain
David Houston Jones: “Strange Pain”: Archive, Trauma and Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski
Yoshiki Tajiri: Everyday Life and the Pain of Existence in Happy Days
Pain at the Limit of the Human
Jonathan Boulter: “We have our being in justice”: Samuel Beckett’s How It Is
Mary Bryden: “That or Groan”: Paining and De-paining in Beckett
Michiko Tsushima: The Appearance of the Human at the Limit of Representation: Beckett and Pain in the Experience of Language
Contributors
Index