Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama (Hardcover)

The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett's drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett's dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett's drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett's drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett's re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	2007
Authors:	Anna McMullan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	186
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-38598-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General
LSN:	0-415-38598-9
Barcode:	9780415385985

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