{"title":"Jonathan Boulter, Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose","authors":"Brian Counter","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2021.0345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2021.0345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":"260-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46966056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The call for a new notion of personhood that goes beyond one's cognitive functions and a new account of human agency has gained interest with the impact of contemporary research in cognitive science over the last few decades. This paper aims to show that examining Beckett's female subject formation allows us to map out not only our changed perception of self, but also the changing patterns of reception of his works over time in relation to the issue of female agency. While Beckett's male subjects in his early novels are often preoccupied with their own journey to find a solipsistic world in their quest for their authentic self, his drama concerns his characters’ affective experience, namely how they live to go on. This paper, thus, will show that what Beckett perceives as gender difference plays a crucial role in his portrayal of personhood that is closely interconnected with other people and external artefacts, as well as his theatricality as a mode of perception that brackets moments of action and our affective experience of time.
{"title":"‘To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was’: Beckett's Female Subject Formation and the Problem of Becoming","authors":"Rina Kim","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2021.0328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2021.0328","url":null,"abstract":"The call for a new notion of personhood that goes beyond one's cognitive functions and a new account of human agency has gained interest with the impact of contemporary research in cognitive science over the last few decades. This paper aims to show that examining Beckett's female subject formation allows us to map out not only our changed perception of self, but also the changing patterns of reception of his works over time in relation to the issue of female agency. While Beckett's male subjects in his early novels are often preoccupied with their own journey to find a solipsistic world in their quest for their authentic self, his drama concerns his characters’ affective experience, namely how they live to go on. This paper, thus, will show that what Beckett perceives as gender difference plays a crucial role in his portrayal of personhood that is closely interconnected with other people and external artefacts, as well as his theatricality as a mode of perception that brackets moments of action and our affective experience of time.","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47694654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Repetition is a key element of Samuel Beckett's writing. Phrases, themes, even whole texts repeat themselves throughout his oeuvre. This article situates this habit of repetition within two contexts: the tumultuous politics of the 1930s and 1940s through which Beckett lived, in which the repetitions of propaganda came to define political existence; and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, in which nationwide lockdowns brought new forms of repetition to citizens around the world as societies strove to respond to the virus spread. In doing so, this article uses Beckett's responses to his historical moment to think through the political rhetoric of lockdown and national solidarity which emerged during the pandemic, particularly in the UK.
{"title":"‘I use the words you taught me’: Beckett and Political Repetition","authors":"W. Davies","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2021.0331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2021.0331","url":null,"abstract":"Repetition is a key element of Samuel Beckett's writing. Phrases, themes, even whole texts repeat themselves throughout his oeuvre. This article situates this habit of repetition within two contexts: the tumultuous politics of the 1930s and 1940s through which Beckett lived, in which the repetitions of propaganda came to define political existence; and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, in which nationwide lockdowns brought new forms of repetition to citizens around the world as societies strove to respond to the virus spread. In doing so, this article uses Beckett's responses to his historical moment to think through the political rhetoric of lockdown and national solidarity which emerged during the pandemic, particularly in the UK.","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":"100-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42613973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances, in part because of their insistent attention on embodied existence and the impaired body. Here, I examine four recent disability performances of Beckett's plays, exploring how these productions prompt re-evaluation of the previously undetected indicators of disability in the scripts, including mobility impairment, automatic speech, stuttering, and memory deficiency. Drawing on a series of original interviews with the practitioners in question, I examine the intersection between textual aesthetics and disability ethics in these contemporary productions, emphasising how these performances illuminate crucial corporeal, social, and ontological concerns in Beckett's original scripts, in newly embodied terms.
{"title":"Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance","authors":"Hannah Simpson","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2021.0327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2021.0327","url":null,"abstract":"Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances, in part because of their insistent attention on embodied existence and the impaired body. Here, I examine four recent disability performances of Beckett's plays, exploring how these productions prompt re-evaluation of the previously undetected indicators of disability in the scripts, including mobility impairment, automatic speech, stuttering, and memory deficiency. Drawing on a series of original interviews with the practitioners in question, I examine the intersection between textual aesthetics and disability ethics in these contemporary productions, emphasising how these performances illuminate crucial corporeal, social, and ontological concerns in Beckett's original scripts, in newly embodied terms.","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69577821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Beckett in the Contemporary Political Moment","authors":"W. Davies","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2021.0325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2021.0325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48964611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers how Krapp's relationships with the various cognitive apparatuses he surrounds himself with prefigures what subjectivity looks like in the information age. The subjectivity that arises out of the complex interactions between the listener and their prosthetic memory can be characterised as what Olga Beloborodova has called ‘postcognitivist’. Considering Krapp's relationship with his tapes from this postcognitivist perspective suggests how the construction of an abiding subject in the information age simultaneously depends upon and is imperilled by the particular technologies that project the voice into the dark. With that in mind, this article also explores how some users on the contemporary counterparts to Krapp's tapes – online platforms like YouTube, Reddit, and 4chan – weaponise the mediated nostalgia that infects Krapp's relationship with his own past to construct a nationalist political identity built on the manufacture of collective counterfactual memory.
{"title":"Technostalgia, Nationalism, and the Extended Mind in Krapp's Last Tape","authors":"Ken Alba","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2021.0329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2021.0329","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how Krapp's relationships with the various cognitive apparatuses he surrounds himself with prefigures what subjectivity looks like in the information age. The subjectivity that arises out of the complex interactions between the listener and their prosthetic memory can be characterised as what Olga Beloborodova has called ‘postcognitivist’. Considering Krapp's relationship with his tapes from this postcognitivist perspective suggests how the construction of an abiding subject in the information age simultaneously depends upon and is imperilled by the particular technologies that project the voice into the dark. With that in mind, this article also explores how some users on the contemporary counterparts to Krapp's tapes – online platforms like YouTube, Reddit, and 4chan – weaponise the mediated nostalgia that infects Krapp's relationship with his own past to construct a nationalist political identity built on the manufacture of collective counterfactual memory.","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":"64-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47643488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article sets out to examine the aged radio body in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall. Its main argument is that there is a conceptual symbiosis between the radiogenic problematisation of corporea...
{"title":"The Aged Radio Body: Corporeality and Old Age in Beckett's All That Fall","authors":"Pedro Querido","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2020.0312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2020.0312","url":null,"abstract":"This article sets out to examine the aged radio body in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall. Its main argument is that there is a conceptual symbiosis between the radiogenic problematisation of corporea...","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":"29 1","pages":"216-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48342266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michael Coffey, Samuel Beckett is Closed","authors":"P. Stewart","doi":"10.3366/JOBS.2020.0319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/JOBS.2020.0319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41421,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45443760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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