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  Beckett, Technology and the Body (Hardback) By (author) Ulrika Maude

  

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  Short Description for Beckett, Technology and the BodyAn important new reading of Beckett that foregrounds the importance of the body and the senses in his work.
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  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Published: 29 January 2009
  • Format: Hardback 222 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: From C 1900 -
  • ISBN 13: 9780521515375 ISBN 10: 0521515378

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• Critics have often focused on interiority in Beckett's works, privileging the mind over the body. In this new approach, the first sustained analysis of embodiment in Beckett's prose, drama and media works, Ulrika Maude argues that physical and sensory experience is in fact central to the understanding of Beckett's writing. In innovative readings of sight, hearing, touch and movement in the full range of Beckett's works, Ulrika Maude uncovers the author's effort to shed light on embodied experience, paying attention to Beckett's interests in medicine and body-altering technologies such as prostheses. Through these material, bodily, concerns Beckett explores wider themes of subjectivity and experience, interiority and exteriority, foregrounding the inextricable relationship between the body, the senses and the self. This important new study offers a novel approach to Beckett, one in which the body takes its rightful place alongside the mind.