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Samuel Beckett and Pain
Edited by Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri, and Michiko Tsushima
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2012. 247 pp. (Faux Titre 372)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3523-2 Paper
ISBN: 978-94-012-0798-0 E-Book
Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=FAUX+372
Samuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores
the theme of pain in Beckett's works. Experiencing both physical and
psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found suffering
in human life inevitable, accepted it as a source of inspiration in
his writings, and probed it to gain deeper insight into the difficult
and emotionally demanding processes of artistic creation, practice and
performance. Acknowledging the recent developments in the study of
pain in literature and culture, this volume explores various aspects
of pain in Beckett's works, a subject which has been heretofore only
sporadically noted. The topics discussed include Beckett's aesthetics
and pain, pain as loss and trauma, pain in relation to palliation,
pain at the experience of the limit, pain as archive, and pain as part
of everyday life and language. This volume is characterized by its
plural, interdisciplinary perspectives covering the fields of
literature, theatre, art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. By
suggesting more diverse paths in Beckett studies, the authors hope to
make a lasting contribution to contemporary literary studies and other
relevant fields.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Pain as a Creative Force
Mark Nixon: "Happily melancholy": Pleasure and Pain in Early Beckett
Graley Herren: Mourning Becomes Electric: Mediating Loss in Eh Joe
Garin Dowd: Beckettian Pain, In the Flesh: Singularity, Community and
"the Work"
Mariko Hori Tanaka: The Body in Pain and Freedom of the Mind:
Performing Beckett and Noh
Pain in the Age of Uncertainty
Peter Fifield: "Frankly now, is there pain?": Beckett, Medicine and
the Composition of Pain
David Houston Jones: "Strange Pain": Archive, Trauma and Testimony in
Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski
Yoshiki Tajiri: Everyday Life and the Pain of Existence in Happy Days
Pain at the Limit of the Human
Jonathan Boulter: "We have our being in justice": Samuel Beckett's How It Is
Mary Bryden: "That or Groan": Paining and De-paining in Beckett
Michiko Tsushima: The Appearance of the Human at the Limit of
Representation: Beckett and Pain in the Experience of Language
Contributors
Index
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