"Offers the first sustained analysis of Beckett's abiding interest in medicine and its impact on the form and content of his work. The book advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose and drama, drawing on his reading notes on medicine and psychology, and on his correspondence and critical writings"--
"Offers the first sustained analysis of Beckett's abiding interest in medicine and its impact on the form and content of his work. The book advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose and drama, drawing on his reading notes on medicine and psychology, and on his correspondence and critical writings"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ulrika Maude is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Bristol, where she also directs the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science. She is author of Beckett, Technology and the Body (2009) and co-editor of Beckett and Phenomenology (2009), The Body and the Arts (2009), The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (2015) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature (2018). She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Beckett Studies
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Introduction: Beckett's medical imagination 1. Poetry, illness and medicine 2. Chronic conditions: Keats, Johnson and Beckett 3. Convulsive aesthetics: Charcot, Chaplin and Gilles de la Tourette 4. Nerve theory, conditioned reflex and literary form 5. Writing viscera: Beckett's inhuman domain 6. 'Temporarily sane': Beckett and Modernist suicide 7. Beckett's affective telepoetics Conclusion.
Introduction: Beckett's medical imagination 1. Poetry, illness and medicine 2. Chronic conditions: Keats, Johnson and Beckett 3. Convulsive aesthetics: Charcot, Chaplin and Gilles de la Tourette 4. Nerve theory, conditioned reflex and literary form 5. Writing viscera: Beckett's inhuman domain 6. 'Temporarily sane': Beckett and Modernist suicide 7. Beckett's affective telepoetics Conclusion.
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