Samuel Beckett and Technology

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Titel: Samuel Beckett and Technology

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction ‘Up to the neck in technical muck’: The Enduring Success of Beckett’s Technological Failures
Part I Mechanical and Electrical Technologies
Chapter 1 The Unmaking of Homo Faber: Beckett and the Exhaustion of Technē
Chapter 2 The Permanent Way: Movement and Stasis in Beckett’s Railways
Chapter 3 ‘with the mechanics of which I am unfamiliar’: The Strangeness of Technology in Beckett
Chapter 4 Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to Techno-Human Being
Chapter 5 Monadic Clocks in Samuel Beckett’s Quad: Decomposing the ‘dramatized taboo’
Part II Media Technologies and Intermediality
Chapter 6 Beckett’s Technography: Traces of Radio in the Later Prose
Chapter 7 Beckett’s Words and Music ‘or some other trouble’: Vaguening on the Airwaves
Chapter 8 ‘a medium for fleas’: Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s–1960s French Television Drama
Chapter 9 Beckett’s Multimedial Authorship: Language of Technology in the Genesis of Play and Film
Chapter 10 Beckett and Television: Anachronism as Innovation
Chapter 11 Making and Remaking Samuel Beckett’s What Where
Part III Ideas of Technology
Chapter 12 Portals of Invention: A ‘techno-logical’ Reading of the Prometheus Figure in Beckett’s The Unnamable
Chapter 13 Technology and the Naive Artist: Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
Chapter 14 Beckett’s Invisible Matter: Echo, Technology and Posthuman Affect
Chapter 15 Digital Poetics and Digital Hermeneutics in Beckett Studies: Toward a Manuscript Chronology
Coda Viral Beckett
Index

Beteiligte: Kiryushina, Galina [Verfasser:in]; Adar, Einat [Verfasser:in]; Adar, Einat [Mitwirkende:r]; Asmus, Walter [Mitwirkende:r]; Beloborodova, Olga [Mitwirkende:r]; Bignell, Jonathan [Mitwirkende:r]; Bird, Dúnlaith [Mitwirkende:r]; Borg, Ruben [Mitwirkende:r]; D’Arcy, Michael [Mitwirkende:r]; Hulle, Dirk Van [Mitwirkende:r]; Jeffery, Lucy [Mitwirkende:r]; Johnson, Nicholas [Mitwirkende:r]; Kiryushina, Galina [Mitwirkende:r]; Mori, Naoya [Mitwirkende:r]; Nixon, Mark [Verfasser:in]; Nixon, Mark [Mitwirkende:r]; Thobois, Céline [Mitwirkende:r]; Thoelen, Thomas [Mitwirkende:r]; Verhulst, Pim [Mitwirkende:r]; Weller, Shane [Mitwirkende:r]; Whelan, Feargal [Mitwirkende:r]; Zilliacus, Clas [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.); 2 B/W illustrations

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781474463300

ISBN: 9781474463300

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Schlagwörter: Technology in literature ; Technologie ; Literary Studies ; ART / Film & Video

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Explores Beckett’s engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic careerApproaches the topic of technology from multiple perspectives previously unexplored in Beckett criticismIntervenes in current debates within Beckett Studies and related fields of literary and cultural criticism by exploring matters of technicity, intermediality, post-humanism, and the digital ageConsiders previously unpublished material and employs digital manuscript tools to trace the significance of technology for BeckettThis collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett’s trademark aesthetics. Samuel Beckett and Technology assembles an innovative and diverse range of scholarly approaches to the topic, which collectively renegotiate our understanding of his work in prose, theatre, film, radio and television. What emerges from these discussions is the centrality of technology for Beckett’s creative imagination, a factor that is equally enabling as it is limiting. At the same time, the book reveals how theories of technology can yield new readings of the way Beckett responds to the conditions of technological modernity. As such, Beckett’s work is examined in its relation to historical and contemporary technologies, discourses of technicity and technē, post-humanism, and the digital age

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