Beckett's Intuitive Spectator Me to Play /

• Main Author: Chiang, Michelle (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
• Subjects: British literature.; Postmodernism (Literature).; Theater.; British and Irish Literature.; Postmodern Literature.; Contemporary Theatre.

Beckett's Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Intuition of Loss in Beckett's Radio Plays
• 3. Film and the Ecstatic Spectator
• 4. Time out from the World: Respite in Beckett's Stage plays
• 5. The Disengaging Beckettian Television Audience and the Monument to Loss
• 6. Conclusion.