Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work [electronic resource] /
Stewart, P.author.
This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A rump sexuality : the recurrence of defecating horses in Beckett's oeuvre -- The horror of sex -- The horrors of reproduction -- Alternating and alternative sexualities -- Sex and aesthetics -- Aesthetic reproduction across the oeuvre.
This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Theater—History.
Literature—Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Theatre History.
Literary Theory.
Aesthetics.