Beckett and Politics
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| Summary: | XIV, 319 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47110-1 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction, Helen Bailey & William Davies
- 2. The Politics of Forms in Beckett’s Writing, Nadia Louar
- 3. Beckett, Contradiction and a Textual Politics of Change, Arka Chattopadhyay
- 4. “Made of words”: Beckett and the Politics of Language, Alan Graham
- 5. “First the Place, Then I’ll Find Me in It”: The Unnamable’s Pronouns and the Politics of Confinement, James Little
- 6. Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine, Seán Kennedy
- 7. Tweaking Misogyny or Misogyny Twisted: Beckett’s Take on “Aristotle and Phyllis” in Happy Days, Kumiko Kiuchi
- 8. Insufferable Maternity and Motherhood in “First Love”, Brenda O’Connell
- 9. Beckett, Biopolitics and the Problem of Life, Marc Farrant
- 10. Beckett’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young “Post-War Degenerate”, Giovanna Vincenti
- 11. Waiting for Godot and the Fascist Aesthetics of the Bod, Hannah Simpson
- 12. Political Theatre and the Beckett Problem, Emilie Morin
- 13. “The air is full of our cries”: Staging Godot during apartheid South Africa, Matthew McFrederick
- 14. Samuel Beckett’s Nominalist Politics and the Pitfalls of ‘Presentism’, Matthew Feldman
- 15. Samuel Beckett’s Subaltern Figures, Brendan Dowling
- 16. The Big House in the Suburbs: Home Thoughts from Abroad in Watt, Feargal Whelan
- 17. Beckett and the Politics of Empathy in Site-Specific Theatre, Niamh M. Bowe
- 18. Towards A Modernism with Meaning: Beckett’s Refugees, Rodney Sharkey
- 19. Afterword, Peter Boxall.