Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally. -- .
Edited by:
Mariko Hori Tanaka,
Yoshiki Tajiri,
Michiko Tsushima
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9781526148094
ISBN 10: 1526148099
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 April 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction – Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima with Robert Eaglestone Part I: Trauma symptoms 1. Beckett and trauma: father’s death and the sea – Julie Campbell 2. ‘Void cannot go’: trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett – Nicholas E. Johnson Part II: Body and subjectivity 3. Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett – David Houston Jones 4. ‘The skin of words’: trauma and skin in Watt – Michiko Tsushima 5. Bodily object voices in Embers – Anna Sigg Part III: Historical and cultural contexts 6. Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett – Yoshiki Tajiri 7. Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo’s Bones – Conor Carville 8. The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett’s post-war plays – Mariko hori tanaka Index -- .
Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo Yoshiki Tajiri is Professor of English at University of Tokyo Michiko Tsushima is an Associate Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan
