The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett's Drama [electronic resource] /
McTighe, P.author.
Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-189) and index.
Introduction: Haptics, aesthetics, philosophy -- Eye: failing, myopic, grainy -- Ear: full of relentless echoes -- Mouth: trying to tell it all, failing -- Skin, space, place -- On the one hand . . . (the one that writes the body) -- On the other hand . . . (the one that refuses to touch) -- Conclusion: Departing bodies, between doubting Thomas and noli me tangere.
Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.