Posthuman space in Samuel Beckett's short prose / Jonathan Boulter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulter, Jonathan, 1967- author.

Series:

Other Becketts.

Other Becketts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Beckett, Samuel.

Human beings in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Beckett, Heidegger, the World

1 Homelessness: The Expelled, The Calmative, The End

2 The Poverty of World: Texts for Nothing

3 Spaces of Ruin: All Strange Away, Imagination Dead Imagine, The Lost Ones, Ping, Lessness

4 Space and Trauma: Fizzles

5 Fables of Posthuman Space: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho

Conclusion: ‘neither’

References

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-3027-9

OCLC:

1312727350