A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama (Samuel Beckett in Company)

215 Pages·2017·1.383 MB·English

by  Charlotta P. Einarsson

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Charlotta P. Einarsson

A Theatre of Affect
The Corporeal Turn in Samuel
Beckett’s Drama
SAMUEL BECKETT IN COMPANY
Edited by Paul Stewart ISSN 2365-3809
1 Llewellyn Brown
Beckett, Lacan and the Voice
With a foreword by Jean-Michel Rabaté
ISBN 978-3-8382-0869-5 (Paperback edition)
ISBN 978-3-8382-0889-3 (Hardcover edition)
2 Robert Reginio, David Houston Jones, and Katherine Weiss (eds.)
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
ISBN 978-3-8382-1079-7
3 Charlotta P. Einarsson
A Theatre of Affect
The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett’s Drama
ISBN 978-3-8382-1118-3
Charlotta P. Einarsson

A THEATRE OF AFFECT

The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett’s Drama

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it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth.
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then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Table of contents
List of Abbreviations ............................................................... XI 
Introduction ............................................................................... 1 
Chapter 1  Phenomenological Presentations ....................... 21 
Chapter 2  The Body as Technology ................................... 45 
Chapter 3  The Corporeal Turn ........................................... 83 
Chapter 4  A Theatre of Affect ........................................... 125 
Chapter 5  Meaning ........................................................... 153 
Conclusion .............................................................................. 175 
Bibliography ........................................................................... 183 
Index ...................................................................................... 193 

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