Beckett'S Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts

ISBN-13: 9781474421645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Sozita Goudouna

Opis

Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface, David Cunningham; Introduction: In the Same Breath ? From the Black Box to the White Cube and Beyond; PART I: RESPIRATION, DISCOURSE AND THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY; 1. Deeptime: Breath and the Look of Non-Art; 2. The Durational Turn: Absorption and the Specificity of Temporality; Part II: (RE)PRESENTING BREATH; 3. Shortness of Breath: Beckett’s Breath in Context; 4. Emptied of Theatre: Breath and the Phenomenology of Disembodiment; Part III: THE EXHALED FIELD; 5. Waste of Breath: The Readymade as a Stage Set; 6. Intermedial Breath: Defying the Boundaries between Displaying and Staging; 7. Investigating the Materiality of Respiration in Different Media; Conclusion: The Afterlives of Breath – Breathe, Breathe Again . . . Breathe Better; Bibliography; Index.