Beckett, Deleuze and Performance A Thousand Failures and A Thousand Inventions /

• Main Author: Koczy, Daniel (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: Performance Philosophy
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Aesthetics.; British literature.; Performing Arts.; British and Irish Literature.

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Theatrical Encounters
• 2. Neither with you nor without you: Performance and Philosophy in Beckett's Non-relational Aesthetics
• 3. A Thousand Failures and A Thousand Inventions: Towards a Method for Performance Philosophy
• 4. Belacquobatics: Deleuze, Affect and Beckett's Affective Athleticism
• 5. Belacquobatic-secrets: Deleuze and the Purgatorial Rebellion of the Beckettian Body
• 6. Pure and Theatrical Optical-Sound Situations: Automation and the Image in Beckett's Play
• 7. A Crystal-Theatre: Suffering for Love
• 8. Conclusion.