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Title
The affects, cognition, and politics of Samuel Beckett's postwar drama and fiction : revolutionary and evolutionary paradoxes / Cristina Ionica.
ISBN
9783030349028 (electronic book)
3030349020 (electronic book)
9783030349011
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 286 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-34
Call Number
PR6003.E282
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.04
Summary
The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Becketts Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Becketts 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, Becketts 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 Becketts attack on gender/ class-related normative injunctions, the book shows that Becketts works can generate solidarity and action-oriented affects in readers/ spectators regardless of their training in textual analysis. Part II proposes that Becketts 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 minds ability to operate at ease with increasingly complex, malleable, extensible, and inclusive frames, as well as with increasing volumes of information.
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Series
New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century.
1. Introduction to Becketts "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": Becketts Solidarity-Building Dramas
4. Under-the-Radar Derision and Anger: Becoming Revolutionary in/ through Becketts Fiction
Part II Script Evaluation and Enrichment: Evolutionary Beckett
5. Becketts "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.
