Beckett and Embodiment - (Other Becketts) by Amanda M Dennis (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings. Amanda Dennis is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Amanda M. Dennis is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris. She co-edited the recent volume <i>Samuel Beckett and the Nonhuman</i> (Brill, 2020), and her articles have appeared in the <i>Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Beckett Studies</i> and <i>Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui</i>, among other places. She has held fellowships and visiting lectureships in France, the US, the UK and Spain, and she is the author of the novel Her Here (Bellevue Literary Press, 2021).<p>
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