Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot - Couverture souple

Sarkar, Jayjit

 
9781622738052: Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1622738055 ISBN 13 : 9781622738052
Editeur : Vernon Press, 2019

Synopsis

This work questions the problematic connections between illness and modernity: the complicated negotiations involving the body both in its physicality and phenomenology and the poetics and praxiality of illness. The project, which is predominantly conceptual in nature, for it does not see illness solely as a clinical-physical category (leaning heavily on the medical sciences), but rather perspectivizes its phenomenology and pathographical limits and manifestations, lateralizing on its critical correspondences with a selection of modernist texts ranging from Virginia Woolf to Samuel Beckett.

The book unearths different 'possibilities' of illness without denying its (quite natural) association with morbidity, pain, suffering, dying and death. It looks at illness and its effects on different bodies phenomenologically with the help of some twentieth-century philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jean Luc-Nancy, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre and Emmanuel Levinas. The book locates these phenomenological understandings in a reading of some of the important literary works of early twentieth-century Europe -- five literary works from five different genres (poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and epistle) -- critiquing the relevance of the phenomenological body in the literary and narrative world of the texts. The author deals with Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Franz Kafka's letters, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill and T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland within the aesthetico-philosophical space and the epistemic dialogism that modernist aesthetics implies and espouses.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jayjit Sarkar received his PhD from the University of North Bengal, India. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Raiganj University, India.

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Éditeur
Vernon Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1622738055
ISBN 13 
9781622738052
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
118
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781622736355: Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot

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ISBN 10 :  1622736354 ISBN 13 :  9781622736355
Editeur : Vernon Press, 2019
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