LEADER 04384nam 22006735 450 001 9910483424503321 005 20230810165941.0 010 $a3-030-34902-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-34902-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000010118364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6026434 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-34902-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010118364 100 $a20200121d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction $eRevolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes /$fby Cristina Ionica 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) 225 1 $aNew Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century,$x2945-6800 311 $a3-030-34901-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction to Beckett?s ?Absurdist? Excess -- Part I Contagion and Accessibility: Revolutionary Beckett -- 2. Repetition, Deliberation, and an Other Power: The Paradox as Practice -- 3. The Liberating Laughter of ?Nearly There?: Beckett?s Solidarity-Building Dramas -- 4. Under-the-Radar Derision and Anger: Becoming Revolutionary in/ through Beckett?s Fiction -- Part II Script Evaluation and Enrichment: Evolutionary Beckett -- 5. Beckett?s ?Script Multiplication and Enrichment?: Rejecting Toxic Disjunctions and Seeking Inclusivity -- 6. Evaluation, Expulsion, Expansion, and Reframing: Building Processing Speed and Tolerance to Cognitive Strain -- 7. Conclusion. 330 $aThe Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett?s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Beckett?s works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, exploitation, and repression, alongside unprecedented demands for high-volume information-processing and connectivity. Part I shows that, in generating consistent flows of solidarity-based angry laughter, Beckett?s works sabotage coercive couplings of the subject to social machines by translating subordination and repression into processes rather than data of experience. Through an examination of Beckett?s attack on gender/ class-related normative injunctions, the book shows that Beckett?s works can generate solidarity and action-oriented affects in readers/ spectators regardless of their training in textual analysis. Part II proposes that Beckett?s works can weaken the cognitive dominance of constrictive ?frames? in readers/ audiences, so that toxic ideological formations such as the association of safety and comfort with simplicity and ?sameness? are rejected and more complex cognitive operations are welcomed instead?a process that bolsters the mind?s ability to operate at ease with increasingly complex, malleable, extensible, and inclusive frames, as well as with increasing volumes of information. 410 0$aNew Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century,$x2945-6800 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aDrama 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aFiction 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aDrama 606 $aContemporary Theatre and Performance 606 $aFiction Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aDrama. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aFiction. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aDrama. 615 24$aContemporary Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 676 $a848.91409 676 $a828.91209 700 $aIonica$b Cristina$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0990623 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483424503321 996 $aThe Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction$92266528 997 $aUNINA