Deleuze and Beckett

ISBN-13: 9781137481139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 253 str.

S. E. Wilmer; Audrone Ukauskaite

Opis

Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays illuminating similarities between the philosophies and practices of Deleuze and Beckett. The contributors include some of the leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists in the world, and their essays address different ideas and concepts of Deleuzian philosophy as well as a wide range of Beckett's oeuvre, including his novels, short stories, stage and television plays, and film work. The book considers Deleuze's interpretation of Beckett's work and demonstrates that Deleuzian concepts and ideas can be usefully applied to Beckett's texts in order provide a greater understanding of Beckett's characters and their journeys. Deleuze's philosophy helps us to recognize that what has been seen as the private territory of despair, loneliness, and emptiness in Beckett's work masks a world of flow and fluctuation that expresses multiple and heterogeneous possibilities.

Recenzje

"The book would inspire a fundamental reappraisal of the works of Beckett, challenging the prevailing view that situated Beckett within the series of well-known existential thinkers -Sartre, Camus, Ionesco -who dominated mid-twentieth-century French philosophy. ... In short, we have that rare and admirable thing in an academic text: an open invitation to create new combinations of thought." (Tony Fisher, Theatre Research International, Vol. 41 (2), 2016)

"Deleuze and Beckett offers a valuable summary of existing scholarship in this area and brings many of its leading voices together to create a series of compelling dialogues between Deleuze and Beckett ... . the collection addresses a wide range of works in both their oeuvres, as well as the authors' readings of other artists and philosophers (such as Bergson), and opens up insights into the philosophical frameworks posited by Deleuze and the radically innovative aesthetics of Beckett's work." (Anna McMullan, Modern Drama, Vol. 59 (2), 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction; S. E. Wilmer and Audron? Žukauskait?
PART I: DIFFERENCE, BECOMING, MULTIPLICITY
1. Ideas in Beckett and Deleuze; Anthony Uhlmann
2. Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett, Deleuze; S. E. Gontarski
3. Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-imperceptible; Audron? Žukauskait?
PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIALITY
4. Breakdown or Breakthrough? Deleuzoguattarian Schizophrenia and Beckett ' 's Gallery of
Moribunds; Ben Keatinge
5. ' 'Till ooze again and on ' ': Textual Desire and the Subject ' 's Presence (Beckett, Deleuze,
Lacan); Isabelle Ost
6. The Test is Company: A Deleuzian Speculation on Beckett ' 's Sociendum; Timothy S. Murphy
PART III: SPACE, TIME AND MEMORY
7. Different Spaces: Beckett, Deleuze, Bergson; David Addyman
8. The Problem of the Any-space-whatever between Deleuze ' 's Cinema and Beckett ' 's Prose; Garin Dowd
9. Erecting Monuments to Analogue: Memory and/as Sensation in Atom Egoyan ' 's Krapp ' 's Last Tape and Steenbeckett; Colin Gardner
PART IV: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
10. Beckett and Deleuze, Tragic Thinker; Ruben Borg
11. A Crystal-theatre: Beckett, Deleuze and Theatre ' 's Crystalline Potential; Daniel Koczy
12. ' 'I switch off ' ': Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event; Arka Chattopadhyay
Index

O autorze

David Addyman, University of Bergen, Norway Ruben Borg, Hebrew University, Israel Arka Chattopadhyay, University of Western Sydney, Australia Garin Dowd, University of West London, UK Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA Benjamin Keatinge, South East Europe University, Macedonia Daniel Koczy, Northumbria University, UK Timothy S. Murphy, Oklahoma State University, USA Isabelle Ost, Saint-Louis University, Belgium Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney, Australia