Beckett beyond the normal

by Kennedy, Sean

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

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Full title :Beckett beyond the normal / Edited By Seán Kennedy.

Summary

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781474460484, 1474460488
oclc:on1227085910
LC Classification:PR6003.E282
Dewey Decimal:828.91409

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Beckett beyond the Normal -- Chapter 1 Murphy and the Tao of Autism -- Chapter 2 Narrating Disruption: Realist Fiction and The Politics of Form in Watt -- Chapter 3 'no human shape': Unformed Life in The Unnamable -- Chapter 4 Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine -- Chapter 5 'He wants to know if it hurts!': Suffering beyond Redemption in Waiting for Godot -- Chapter 6 'As if the sex matters': Beckett, Barthes and Endgame in Love

Chapter 7 Beckett's Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days -- Chapter 8 Beckett's Safe Words: Normalising Torture in How It Is -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Subjects

Beckett, Samuel Biopolitics in literature Biopolitique dans la littérature Criticism, interpretation, etc Disabilities in literature Handicap dans la littérature Literary Criticism -- Feminist Orientation sexuelle dans la littérature Sexual orientation in literature