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Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency (Other Becketts) by Amanda M. Dennis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency (Other Becketts) about?

This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett’s work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett’s oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.

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Author

Amanda M. Dennis

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474462990

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance