{"product_id":"samuel-beckett-and-pain-9789042035232","title":"Samuel Beckett and Pain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Beckett and Pain is a collection of ten essays which explores the theme of pain in Beckett’s works. Experiencing both physical and psychological pain in the course of his life, Beckett found suffering in human life inevitable, accepted it as a source of inspiration in his writings, and probed it to gain deeper insight into the difficult and emotionally demanding processes of artistic creation, practice and performance. Acknowledging the recent developments in the study of pain in literature and culture, this volume explores various aspects of pain in Beckett’s works, a subject which has been heretofore only sporadically noted. The topics discussed include Beckett’s aesthetics and pain, pain as loss and trauma, pain in relation to palliation, pain at the experience of the limit, pain as archive, and pain as part of everyday life and language. This volume is characterized by its plural, interdisciplinary perspectives covering the fields of literature, theatre, art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. By suggesting more diverse paths in Beckett studies, the authors hope to make a lasting contribution to contemporary literary studies and other relevant fields.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays uniquely and surprisingly explore the varieties of Beckettian pain, inspired by this mutually interdependent relationship between the writer’s emotional and physical experiences of pain, loss and suffering, and pain’s incidence in his characters.” – Jacob Hovind, Towson University  “An interesting overview of the growing research about pain and suffering, topics which have been of great interest to many Western thinkers.” – French Studies  \"Cet ouvrage collectif, prenant son départ dans une série d'interventions à Tokyo faites par des spécialistes anglophones de premier plan, offre un apport très enrichissant à la question du coprs chez Beckett, déployant des perspectives variées sur la douleur sous ses formes physique et morale.\" – Llewellyn Brown, Les Lettres romanes  \"Il faut recommander la lecture de cet ouvrage, en raison non seulement de la qualité des textes recueillis, mais aussi de l’art avec lequel ils ont été organisés, sous l’égide des trois responsables éditoriaux, qui sont aussi les auteurs des articles ponctuant chacune des trois parties.\"  – Florence Godeau, Série « Samuel Beckett; 4 », Lettres Modernes Minard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction Pain as a Creative Force Mark Nixon: “Happily melancholy”: Pleasure and Pain in Early Beckett Graley Herren: Mourning Becomes Electric: Mediating Loss in Eh Joe Garin Dowd: Beckettian Pain, In the Flesh: Singularity, Community and “the Work” Mariko Hori Tanaka: The Body in Pain and Freedom of the Mind: Performing Beckett and Noh Pain in the Age of Uncertainty Peter Fifield: “Frankly now, is there pain?”: Beckett, Medicine and the Composition of Pain David Houston Jones: “Strange Pain”: Archive, Trauma and Testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski Yoshiki Tajiri: Everyday Life and the Pain of Existence in Happy Days Pain at the Limit of the Human Jonathan Boulter: “We have our being in justice”: Samuel Beckett’s How It Is Mary Bryden: “That or Groan”: Paining and De-paining in Beckett Michiko Tsushima: The Appearance of the Human at the Limit of Representation: Beckett and Pain in the Experience of Language Contributors Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210915340631,"sku":"9789042035232","price":83.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/samuel-beckett-and-pain-9789042035232","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}