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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585596503321

Autore

Rapcsak Balazs

Titolo

Beckett and media / / [edited by] Balazs Rapcsak, Mark Nixon and Philipp Schweighauser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2022

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2022

©2021

ISBN

9781526145840

1526145847

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : digital file(s)

Disciplina

842.914

Soggetti

Literature

Literary Studies: General

LITERARY CRITICISM - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: Literature and theatre -- 1 In search of times gone by -- 2 Beckett's exhausted media -- 3 Micro-drama / techno-trauma -- 4 Electrifying theatre -- 5 Beckett, the proscenium, media -- II: Screens and airwaves -- 6 Beckett's intermedial bodies -- 7 Angles of immunity -- 8 Beckett's affective telepoetics -- 9 Understanding Quad -- 10 Black screens -- III: Digital Beckett -- 11 Directing Play in digital culture -- 12 Editing Beckett in digital media -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring twelve original essays by leading Beckett scholars and media theorists, this book provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The chapters analyse the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Greatly enlarging the scope of earlier discussions, the book draws on a variety



of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such it engages with Beckett as a media artist and examine the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation.