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Yoshiki Tajiri,
Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body:
The Organs and Senses in Modernism,
Palgrave Macmillan (2007/1/23), Hard Cover \8,048
Description
Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body is a study of the representation of the body in Samuel Beckett's work (both novels and plays), specifically focused on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', this book aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was variously registered.
Contents
Introduction
The Prosthetic Body and Sexuality
The Questions of the Boundaries
The Prosthetic Body and Synaesthesia
The Camera Eye
The Prosthetic Voice
Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body:
The Organs and Senses in Modernism,
Palgrave Macmillan (2007/1/23), Hard Cover \8,048
- ISBN-10: 0230008178
- ISBN-13: 978-0230008175
DescriptionSamuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body is a study of the representation of the body in Samuel Beckett's work (both novels and plays), specifically focused on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', this book aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was variously registered.
Contents
Introduction
The Prosthetic Body and Sexuality
The Questions of the Boundaries
The Prosthetic Body and Synaesthesia
The Camera Eye
The Prosthetic Voice
 Samuel Beckett's Vision and Movement Edited by Kojin Kondo Tokyo: Michitani, 2005 |
| Between the Visible and the Invisible |
| "The
Rhetoric of the Veil" by Michiko Tsushima |
| "Beckett
and the Camera Eye" by Yoshiki Tajiri |
| "Between
theatre and Theory: 'Long
Observation
of the Ray'" by Steven Connor |
| "Texture
and Movement of Fine Art in Beckett" by Kojin Kondo |
| The Multicultural Nature of Text |
| "Beckett and Ireland" by Fumko Kita |
| "Beckett's Intertextual Power" by Joseph S. O'leary |
| "Iris Murdoch's Beckett" by Kyoko Hirai |
| "Beckett as Linguist" by Keijiro Suga |
| Body and Sense |
| "Beckett Seeking Words for 'Seeing with an ear" by Mariko Hori |
| "Sisyphus on the Beach" by Yukiyo Gogo |
| The Destination of Cosmology |
| "The
Dream a Rolling Stone Dreamt" by Naoya Mori |
| "Yeats'
Vison and Beckett's Television" by Minako Okamuro |
| "A
Cracked Beater" by Yoshiyuki Inoue |
Junko Matoba's book, Beckett's Yohaku, is an extremely valuable contribution to Beckett scholarship. In considering the empty space in the later plays, it demonstrates convincingly that this space is not mere absence. The author's intuition that the empty space might be fruitfully linked with the Yohaku tradition is amply fulfilled. The book is beautifully written, showing sensitivity to the nuances of Beckett's stagecraft, and provides an informative guide to the artistic tradition which underlies the analysis. It is to be recommended not only to everyone interested in Beckett's theatre, but also in cross-disciplinary currents between literature and the visual arts.
- Professor Mary
Bryden
(President of the Samuel Beckett Society)
(President of the Samuel Beckett Society)
The Space of Vacillation:
The Experience of Language in Beckett, Blanchot, and Heidegger, by
Michiko Tsushima (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003)The question of language has been discussed in various philosophical, literary, and theoretical works of the twentieth century. However, in many cases, while language has remained the object of discussion, an understanding of the experience of language from within has not been deepened. This book seeks to pay attention to 'the experience of language' and rethinks its importance in twentieth century thought and literature. It describes how Beckett, Blanchot, and Heidegger experience the force of language. The study focuses on how each in a different way sought to show the force of language as the movement of vacillation, as a metaphorical form of expression.
