Beckett's Intermedial Ecosystems: Closed Space Environments across the Stage, Prose and Media Works

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Beckett's Intermedial Ecosystems: Closed Space Environments across the Stage, Prose and Media Works
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anna McMullan
SeriesElements in Beckett Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 151
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary reference works
ISBN/Barcode 9781108959056
ClassificationsDewey:828.91409
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 February 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This Element draws on the concept of ecosystems to investigate selected Beckett works across different media which present worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation: rather Beckett's human figures are trapped in a regulated system in which they have little agency. Readers, listeners or viewers are complicit in the operation of techniques of observation inherent to the system, but also reminded of the vulnerability of those subjected to it. Beckett's work offers new paradigms and practices which reposition the human in relation to space, time and species.