Beckett''s Intermedial Ecosystems - Closed Space Environments Across the Stage, Prose and Media Works

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The theatrum mundi as ecosystem: Beckett's mimes and dramatic fragments; 3. Exhausted biospheres and techniques of observation: the closed space prose texts; 4. Televisual systems and Romantic ghosts of the Anthropocenel 5. Conclusion: other ways of being.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anna McMullan, Anna (University of Reading) Mcmullan, McMullan Anna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781108959056
• ISBN: 978-1-108-95905-6
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Beckett Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form