Beckett beyond the normal / edited by Seán Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Sean, Author.

Contributor:

Kennedy, Seán, 1974- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Sexual orientation in literature.

Disabilities in literature.

Biopolitics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so soften about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in 'abnormals' and 'degenerates'? How did he reconceive 'the human' in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett's voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

‘Here all is strange’: Beckett beyond the normal

1. Murphy and the Tao of Autism

2. Narrating Disruption: Realist Fiction and the Politics of Form in Watt

3. ‘no human shape’: Unformed Life in The Unnamable

4. Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine

5. ‘He wants to know if it hurts!’: Suffering beyond Redemption in Waiting for Godot

6 ‘as if the sex matters’: Beckett, Barthes and Endgame in Love

7. Beckett’s Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days

8. Beckett’s Safe Words: Normalising Torture in How It Is

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-6049-6

1-4744-9080-8

1-4744-6048-8

OCLC:

1306541089