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Boulter, Jonathan

 
9781474430258: Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose
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ISBN 10 : 1474430252 ISBN 13 : 9781474430258
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short prose

Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose. These texts are notoriously difficult yet utterly compelling. This compelling difficulty arises from Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. His short texts offer instead an image of a being who may be posthumous, or ultimately beyond categories of life and death. And yet, despite this dismantling, the narrators of these texts still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world.

Key Features:

  • Provides a philosophical reading of Samuel Beckett
  • Rethinks Beckett in relation to the posthuman
  • Contributes to a relatively ignored aspect of Samuel Beckett's writing, the short prose

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University, London, Canada. His previous publications include Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Parables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience (Wayne State UP, 2015), Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Continuum, 2011), Samuel Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008), and Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett (University Press of Florida, 2001).

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1474430252
ISBN 13 
9781474430258
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

Krügerweg 1
Trebbin
Brandenburg
14959
Allemagne

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9781474430265: Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1474430260 ISBN 13 :  9781474430265
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2020
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