Beckett's Intuitive Spectator

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, this book charts the processes of how an audience member's habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett's 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.

Contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship of literature and philosophy Challenges the perspective that Beckett is not accessible to a non-specialist audience Considers the concepts of habit, intuition and loss in Beckett's writings

Auteur
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.

Texte du rabat

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, this book charts the processes of how an audience member s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett s 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.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 2. The Intuition of Loss in Beckett's Radio Plays.- 3. Fi lm 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.