Beckett and nature / edited by Charlie Clements, Eleanor Green, and James Martell.
| Other author | Clements, Charlie (Researcher of English Literature), editor. |
| Other author | Green, Eleanor Dr., editor. |
| Other author | Martell, James, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | vi, 274 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Mother Remains : Beckett's autour function and the ecological / Jonathan Basile -- Nonrelational literature and immanent metaphysics : what Spinoza's nature has to say about Beckett's form / Charlie Clements -- "For the space of an instant" : Beckett on the subject of thought / Bryan Counter -- Enough is too much : reading sex through flowers in Beckett / Eleanor Green -- Clinical olfactory environment shapes care relationships in Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Sam Thompson's Jott / Swati Joshi -- Breathing human within breathless nature : Waiting for Godot in Pakistan / Muhammed Saeed Nasir -- Samuel Beckett's Neo-biomorphic playlet breath (1969) sets the stage for the pirana / Swati Joshi -- Foreseeing and foresaying the buddhist unborn beyond birth and death in Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said / Asijit Datta -- Adorno's dialectic of natural beauty and Beckett's Not I / Justin Neville Kaushall -- The inanimate agency : an object-oriented ontological reading of Beckett's Endgame and its anti-anthropocentric implications / Mehmet Zeki Giritli -- Beckett's foiled mimesis is/in nature / James Martell -- Beckett and the scream of nature / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- "Everything oozes" : On mud and molebane in Beckett's dystopian landscapes / S.E. Gontarski -- Denaturing and renaturing : Samuel Beckett's reception in Martin Mcdonagh's cinema / Jack Dudley. |
| Abstract | "This volume takes its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene. It offers contextualized readings of the understandings of nature and the natural with which Beckett entered into dialogue throughout his decade-spanning œuvre. It shows that part of the radicality of Beckett's writing is that it questions what appears in our cultures as the most unquestionable and opens up possibilities for thinking not only what is human, literature, and philosophy, but also gender, identity, and any attempt at definitions of ourselves or the world at large"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024059460 |
| ISBN | 9798765125410 |
| ISBN | 9798765125403 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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