Beckett, Technology and the Body

by Ulrika Maude

Book Overview

Critics have often focused on interiority in Beckett's works, privileging the mind over the body. In this intriguing 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052118150X
• ISBN13: 9780521181501
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"