Beckett's Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play [Hardcover]

Becketts 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, this book charts the processes of how an audience members habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Becketts film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.

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

Michelle Chiang is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest is in the intersection between literature and the Philosophy of Time and Mind. 

 

Becketts 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, this book charts the processes of how an audience members habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Becketts film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition. 

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