Beckett's Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play

ISBN-13: 9783319915173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 196 str.

Michelle Chiang

Opis

Beckett's Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss.

Spis treści

1.      1. Introduction

1.1  Habit

1.2  Intuition

1.3  Loss

1.4  Chapter Summary

2.      2. The Intuition of Loss in Beckett’s Radio Plays

2.1  Intuiting Loss in the audience’s mind-space

2.2  Blind Faith

2.3  From the periphery to an intuitive center

 

3.     3. Film and the Ecstatic Spectator

3.1 The Influence of Sergei Eisenstein

3.2 From Habit Body to Ecstatic Being

3.3 To have done with the judgement of ‘God’

 

4.      4. Time out from the World: Respite in Beckett’s Stage plays

4.1 Stratified Organism and Kantian Time

4.2 Internal Durée

4.3 Respite

 

5.      5. The Disengaging Beckettian Television Audience and the Monument to Loss

5.1 The Disengaging Beckettian Audience

5.2 The Aesthetic of Loss and the Audience’s Collective Amnesia

5.3 Empathy

 

6.      6. Conclusion

O autorze

Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest is in the intersection between literature and the Philosophy of Time and Mind. 

 

Blurb

Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this book charts the processes of how an audience member’s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett’s film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.