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A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama
Contributor(s): Einarsson, Charlotta P. (Author)
ISBN: 3838211189     ISBN-13: 9783838211183
Publisher: Ibidem Press
OUR PRICE:   $44.55  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century
Series: Samuel Beckett in Company
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 302 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Combining phenomenological analysis with dance and performance analysis and affect theory, A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama takes stock of the various ways in which the body in Samuel Beckett's drama participates in the affective ecology of performance. Affect is here located in the materiality of the body and discussed in relation to the symbolic significance of, for instance, the effort, direction, speed, or duration of a posture, movement, or gesture. Although the meaning of the body in Beckett's stage-images cannot be mapped onto conventional discursive meanings, the significance of the body's formal modulations is affective in the sense that the import of such changes is immediately recognized and felt as significant by spectators. Beckett's theater of affect therefore is predicated on the infinitesimal stirrings of subliminal meaning-making that continuously shape and create the world in experience.