Postcognitivist Beckett

Postcognitivist Beckett

by Beloborodova, Olga

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The aim of this Element is to offer a reassessment of Beckett's alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition - a cluster of present-day philosophical theories that question the mind's brain-bound nature and see cognition primarily as a process of interaction between the human brain and the environment it operates in. The principal argument defended here is that, despite the Cartesian bias introduced by early Beckett scholarship, Beckett's fictional minds are not is…

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  • Full title :Postcognitivist Beckett / Olga Beloborodova.

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The aim of this Element is to offer a reassessment of Beckett's alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition - a cluster of present-day philosophical theories that question the mind's brain-bound nature and see cognition primarily as a process of interaction between the human brain and the environment it operates in. The principal argument defended here is that, despite the Cartesian bias introduced by early Beckett scholarship, Beckett's fictional minds are not isolated 'skullscapes'. Instead, they are grounded in interaction with their fictional storyworlds, however impoverished those may have become in the later part of his writing career.

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  • Publication Date:2020.

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  • Description:1 online resource (65 pages) : : PDF file(s).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781108771108, 1108771106
  • oclc:on1171344889
  • LC Classification:PR6003.E282
  • Dewey Decimal:848.91409

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Postcognitivist Beckett -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Survey of Beckett Criticism -- Cartesianism in Early Anglophone Beckett Studies -- (Anti-)Cartesianism in Beckett Studies Today -- Early Greek Philosophy -- Phenomenology and the Body -- Extended Cognition -- 2 Extended Cognition in Beckett's Prose -- Story: Extended Mind -- More Pricks Than Kicks (1934) -- Murphy (1938) -- Molloy (1951) -- Malone Dies (1951) -- Discourse: Enactivism -- The Unnamable (1953) -- Worstward Ho (1983) -- 'what is the word' (1989) -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations

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Subjects

Beckett, Samuel Criticism, interpretation, etc

Writers

Beloborodova, Olga

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