The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time /
Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

B 2021

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

LITTLE, James Joseph

Basic information

Original name

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas

Authors

LITTLE, James Joseph (372 Ireland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Brussels; London, 520 pp. 1st, 2021

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123433

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-1-350-26904-0

Keywords in English

Samuel Beckett; genetic criticism; enactive cognition; theatre; mind

Abstract

V originále

This volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976) and Footfalls (1976), all translated into French by their author. Including analyses of abandoned archival precursors – the 'Kilcool' drafts (1963) and the 'Petit Odéon' Fragments (1967–1968) – the book covers a crucial period in Beckett's playwriting career, during which his long-held ambition to stage a mouth babbling in the dark became a catalyst for some of his most innovative work. This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the history of the three plays, tracking their development from compositional manuscripts through to publication and performance. The book contends that these plays should be seen as stagings of the subject–object breakdown explored in Beckett's early writing. Drawing on the notes he took on psychology and psychoanalysis in 1934–1935, it examines the many psychological and psychoanalytic concepts that are used in the author's later stagings of the mind. The plays are analysed through the lens of enactive cognition: not as representations of particular psychological conditions, but as pieces which encourage active interpretation on the part of their audiences. By staging minds in states of breakdown that resist diagnosis, Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas enact the subject–object breakdown that is such a key part of Beckett's aesthetics.

Links

CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016952, interní kód MU
(CEP code: EF18_053/0016952)

Name: Postdoc2MUNI

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Priority axis 2: Development of universities and human resources for research and development

Citovat

LITTLE, James Joseph. The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas. Brussels; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 520 pp. 1st. ISBN 978-1-350-26904-0.

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LITTLE, James Joseph. \textit{The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas}. Brussels; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 520 pp. 1st. ISBN~978-1-350-26904-0.

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