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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanaka, Mariko Hori, editor.

Tajiri, Yoshiki, 1964- editor.

Tsushima, Michiko, 1963- editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Introduction / Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima, with Robert Eaglestone

Beckett and trauma, the father's death and the sea / Julie Campbell

'Void cannot go' : trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett / Nicholas E. Johnson

Insignificant residues : trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett / David Houston Jones

'The skin of words' : trauma and skin in Watt / Michiko Tsushima

Bodily object voices in Embers / Anna Sigg

Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett . Yoshiki Tajiri

Smiling tigers : trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo's bones / Conor Carville

The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett's post-war plays / Mariko Hori Tanaka.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and information supplied online (viewed on January 7, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526148094

1526148099

9781526138842

1526138840

9781526121356

1526121352

OCLC:

1224157201