Beckett’s Drama
Mis-Movements and the Aesthetics of Gesture
2024
ibidem (Verlag)
978-3-8382-1298-2 (ISBN)
ibidem (Verlag)
978-3-8382-1298-2 (ISBN)
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett's drama, viz. mis-movements. Sensitivity to the embodied aspects of life is topical in Beckett's drama, but such mis-movements underwrite the intrinsic connections between sense and sense-making to safeguard an ethics of interpretation founded on embodied cognition. Tracing Beckett's aesthetics of gesture back to its phenomenological and embodied roots, Einarsson suggests that the use of mis-movements in Beckett's drama is a methodological solution to the predicament of expression that exposes the injustices done by language to audiences as embodied knowers. More than interpretative dilemmas, mis-movements offer conduits for spectators to re-connect with embodied experience. Thus, they are the poetic means through which an alternative ethics of interpretation begins to emerge.
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson is a senior lecturer in English Literature at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. She is the author of A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett’s Drama (2017).
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Samuel Beckett in Company |
Illustrationen | Håkan Larsson |
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Paul Stewart |
Verlagsort | Stuttgart |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Drama • Samuel Beckett • Theater |
ISBN-10 | 3-8382-1298-3 / 3838212983 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-8382-1298-2 / 9783838212982 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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