Samuel Beckett and Technology

ISBN-13: 9781474463287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str.

Galina Kiryushina; Einat Adar; Mark Nixon

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Acknowledgments; Preface, Clas Zilliacus; Introduction: ‘Up to the neck in technical muck’: The Enduring Success of Beckett’s Technological Failures, Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon; I. Mechanical and Electrical Technologies; 1. The Unmaking of Homo Faber: Beckett and the Exhaustion of Techn?, Shane Weller; 2. The Permanent Way: Movement and Stasis in Beckett’s Railways, Feargal Whelan; 3. ‘with the mechanics of which I am unfamiliar’: The Strangeness of Technology in Beckett, Dúnlaith Bird; 4. Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to a Techno-Human Being, Céline Thobois; 5. Monadic Clocks in Samuel Beckett’s Quad: Decomposing ‘Dramatised Taboo’, Naoya Mori; II. Media Technologies and Intermediality; 6. Beckett’s Technography: Traces of Radio in the Later Prose, Pim Verhulst; 7. Beckett’s Words and Music, ‘or some other trouble’: Vagenuing on the Airwaves, Lucy Jeffery; 8. ‘A medium for fleas’: Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s–1960s French Television Drama, Galina Kiryushina; 9. Beckett’s Multimedial Authorship: Language of Technology in the Genesis of Play and Film, Olga Beloborodova; 10. Beckett and Television: Anachronism as Innovation, Jonathan Bignell; 11. Making and Remaking Samuel Beckett’s What Where, Walter Asmus; III. Ideas of Technology; 12. Portals of Invention: A ‘Techno-Logical’ Reading of the Prometheus Figure in Beckett's The Unnamable, Thomas Thoelen; 13. Technology and the Naïve Artist: Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Michael D’Arcy; 14. Beckett’s Invisible Matter: Echo, Technology and Posthuman Affect, Ruben Borg; 15. Digital Poetics and Digital Hermeneutics in Beckett Studies: Toward a Manuscript Chronology, Dirk Van Hulle; Coda: Viral Beckett, Nicholas Johnson; Notes on Contributors; Index.