Beckett Beyond the Normal

Herausgeber: Kennedy, Sean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781474460460
• ISBN-10: 1474460461
• Artikelnr.: 59511406

Autorenporträt

Seán Kennedy is Professor of English with a specialisation in modern Irish literature and culture. He has published widely on the work of Samuel Beckett in Irish contexts, including Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett, edited with a preface (Faber and Faber, 2010), Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive, with Katherine Weiss (Palgrave, 2009). He is the founder of the binennial Queering Ireland conference organisation (2009-present), and is interested in psychoanalysis, queer studies and feminisms.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
'Here all is strange': Beckett beyond the normal, Seán Kennedy
1. Murphy and the Tao of Autism, Joseph Valente
2. Narrating Disruption: Realist Fiction and the Politics of Form in Watt, William Davies
3. 'no human shape': Unformed Life in The Unnamable, Byron Heffer
4. Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine, Seán Kennedy
5. 'He wants to know if it hurts!': Suffering beyond Redemption in Waiting for Godot, Hannah Simpson
6. 'as if the sex matters': Beckett, Barthes and Endgame in Love, James Brophy
7. Beckett's Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days, Nic Barilar
8. Beckett's Safe Words: Normalising Torture in How It Is, Dominic Walker
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index.