Beckett and Nature.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clements, Charles, editor.

Martell, James, editor.

Green, Eleanor, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Nature in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

New analyses on the insightful ways in which Beckett's work actively engages with contested notions of Nature and the natural, developing a radical version of modernism's main questions and insights.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Natural Bodies

Chapter 1: Mother Remains: Beckett's autour Function and the Ecological

Beckett's No Goes

A place, that again.

Chapter 2: Nonrelational Literature and Immanent Metaphysics: What Spinoza's Nature Has to Say About Beckett's Form

Spinoza's Nature and Expression

Logoclasm and the Relational Absence of Relation

Chapter 3: "For the space of an instant": Beckett on the Subject of Thought

I: Decomposition, Judgment, and the Cry

II: Nothing Stirring-Beckett's Aesthetic Reconfiguration of Proust

III: Thinking as Listening

Chapter 4: Enough is Too Much: Reading Sex Through Flowers in Beckett

Sex

Flowers

Masturbation

Castration

Chapter 5: Clinical Olfactory Environment Shapes Care Relationships in Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Sam Thompson's Jott

Concinnity of Redolent Literary Smells

Beckett and Thompson: Olfactographic Writing in the Making

And the Etymology of "Smell"? Could It Be the Same Word as "Care"?

Kinetic Clinical Smells: Paraldehyde Travels from Murphy to Jott

Conclusion: Olfacio ergo sum

Part II: Natural Worlds

Chapter 6: Breathing Human Within Breathless Nature: Waiting for Godot in Pakistan

Background

Environmental Themes in Waiting for Godot

Historical and Environmental Context of South Punjab

Adaptation of Waiting for Godot in Pakistan: Ghulami

The Barren Landscape

Symbolism of the Tree

Water Scarcity

Socio-political Critique in Ghulami

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Samuel Beckett's Neo-biomorphic Playlet Breath (1969) Sets the Stage for the Pirana

"they are all alike, rubbish dumps": Neo-biomorphic Garbage Art

Breath as Neo-biomorphic Garbage Art.

"we're heading for a great muck heap": Contemporary Echoes of Breath in Ahmedabad

Chapter 8: Foreseeing and Foresaying the Buddhist Unborn Beyond Birth and Death in Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said

Ill Seen Ill Said

The Emptiness of Buddhism

The Posthuman in the Unborn

Chapter 9: Adorno's Dialectic of Natural Beauty and Beckett's Not I

Part I: Adorno on the Dialectic of Enlightenment and Natural Beauty

Part II: Beckett's Not I

Chapter 10: The Inanimate Agency: An Object-Oriented Ontological Reading of Beckett's Endgame and Its Anti-anthropocentric Implications

Object-Oriented Ontology

Reinterpreting Endgame Through the Lens of Object-Oriented Ontology

Object-Oriented Ontology and Merleau-Ponty's Chiasm

A Challenge to Humanistic Hubris

The Practical Implications of Object-Oriented Ontology

Part III: Natural Literatures

Chapter 11: Beckett's Foiled Mimesis is/in Nature

Three Natures

Foiled Reflection at/of the Origin

Molloy's Natural Imperative

The Unnameable('s) Vomit

Chapter 12: Beckett and the Scream of Nature

Chapter 13: "Everything oozes": On Mud and Molebane in Beckett's Dystopian Landscapes

Chapter 14: Denaturing and Renaturing: Samuel Beckett's Reception in Martin McDonagh's Cinema

Samuel Beckett and "Nature"

Beckett's Denaturing

Contemporary Renaturings of Beckett

Martin McDonagh's Reception of Beckett

Renaturing Waiting for Godot: McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths

Ecocritical Renaturing

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765125441

9798765125434

9798765125427

OCLC:

1520507040