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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanaka, Mariko Hori.

Tajiri, Yoshiki, 1964-

Tsushima, Michiko, 1963-

Series:

Faux titre 0167-9392

Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 372

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Psychology.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Pain in literature.

Suffering in literature.

Psychology.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012.

Contents:

I. Pain as a creative method. "Happily melancholy" : pleasure and pain in early Beckett / Mark Nixon ; Mourning becomes electric : mediating loss in Eh Joe / Graley Herren ; Beckettian pain, in the flesh : singularity, community and "the work" / Garin Dowd ; The body in pain and freedom of the mind : performing Beckett and noh / Mariko Hori Tanaka

II. Pain in the age of uncertainty. "Frankly now, is there pain?" : Beckett, medicine and the composition of pain / Peter Fifield ; "Strange pain" : archive, trauma and testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski / David Houston Jones ; Everyday life and the pain of existence in Happy days / Yoshiki Tajiri

III. Pain at the limit of the human. "We have our being in justice" : Samuel Beckett's How it is / Jonathan Boulter ; "That or groan" : paining and de-paining in Beckett / Mary Bryden ; The appearance of the human at the limit of representation : Beckett and pain in the experience of language / Michiko Tsushima.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789042035232

9042035234

OCLC:

797974985