Beckett's Intermedial Ecosystems

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Beckett's Intermedial Ecosystems

Closed Space Environments across the Stage, Prose and Media Works

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary reference works

Author: Anna McMullan

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Collection: Elements in Beckett Studies

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 18th February 2021

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781108963244


Introduction

This Element draws on the concept of ecosystems to investigate selected Beckett works across different media which present worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation: rather Beckett's human figures are trapped in a regulated system in which they have little agency.

Reader Engagement

Readers, listeners or viewers are complicit in the operation of techniques of observation inherent to the system, but also reminded of the vulnerability of those subjected to it.

New Paradigms

Beckett's work offers new paradigms and practices which reposition the human in relation to space, time and species.

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