Posthuman space in Samuel Beckett's short prose /
"Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the posthuman subject in his short prose. These texts are utterly compelling yet notoriously difficult because of Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. They offer an image of a being...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Other Becketts.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Beckett, Heidegger, the world
- 1. Homelessness : The expelled, The calmative, The End
- 2. The poverty of world : Texts for nothing
- 3. Spaces of ruin : All strange away, Imagine dead imagine, The lost ones, Ping, Lessness
- 4. Space and trauma : Fizzles
- 5. Fables of posthuman space : Company, Ill seen ill said, Worstward ho
- Conclusion : 'neither'.