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Title:

Samuel Beckett and pain / edited by Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima.

Publisher:

Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989--Psychology.
Pain in literature.
Suffering in literature.

Other Authors:

Tanaka, Mariko Hori.
Tajiri, Yoshiki, 1964-
Tsushima, Michiko, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

I. Pain as a creative method. "Happily melancholy" : pleasure and pain in early Beckett / Mark Nixon ; Mourning becomes electric : mediating loss in Eh Joe / Graley Herren ; Beckettian pain, in the flesh : singularity, community and "the work" / Garin Dowd ; The body in pain and freedom of the mind : performing Beckett and noh / Mariko Hori Tanaka -- II. Pain in the age of uncertainty. "Frankly now, is there pain?" : Beckett, medicine and the composition of pain / Peter Fifield ; "Strange pain" : archive, trauma and testimony in Samuel Beckett and Christian Boltanski / David Houston Jones ; Everyday life and the pain of existence in Happy days / Yoshiki Tajiri -- III. Pain at the limit of the human. "We have our being in justice" : Samuel Beckett's How it is / Jonathan Boulter ; "That or groan" : paining and de-paining in Beckett / Mary Bryden ; The appearance of the human at the limit of representation : Beckett and pain in the experience of language / Michiko Tsushima.

Series:

Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 372

ISBN:

9042035234 (pbk.)
9789042035232 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)797974985

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)