Beckett's Drama

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1298-2
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Taschenbuch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 314 g

Reihe: Samuel Beckett in Company

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett’s drama, viz. mis-movements. Sensitivity to the embodied aspects of life is topical in Beckett’s drama, but such mis-movements underwrite the intrinsic connections between sense and sense-making to safeguard an ethics of interpretation founded on embodied cognition. Tracing Beckett’s aesthetics of gesture back to its phenomenological and embodied roots, Einarsson suggests that the use of mis-movements in Beckett’s drama is a methodological solution to the predicament of expression that exposes the injustices done by language to audiences as embodied knowers. More than interpretative dilemmas, mis-movements offer conduits for spectators to re-connect with embodied experience. Thus, they are the poetic means through which an alternative ethics of interpretation begins to emerge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Einarsson, Charlotta P.

Palmstierna Einarsson, Charlotta

Stewart, Paul

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stewart, Paul

Larsson, Håkan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

Einarsson, Charlotta P.
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson is a senior lecturer in English Literature at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. She is the author of A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett’s Drama (2017).

Charlotta P. Einarsson is a Lecturer in English Literature at Umeå University, Sweden. She is the author of A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett’s Drama (2017).