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Pilgrim's Gress: The Beckett Walk As Aesthetic Practice

Expected online publication date:  18 November 2024

Andre Furlani
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Montréal

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Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a material practice. The walk begins as a motif, becomes a rhythm, expands into a compositional principle, and culminates in an ontology -- a defining means by which his characters are cognitively embodied and by which meaning is grounded. The book contends that Beckett's literary pedestrianism involve passage from an evasive and narcissistic vestige of Romanticism and a solipsistic variation on Edwardian autonomy to an embrace of mutuality and transitory being: life not as a network of stations so much as a meshwork of ways, peripatetic coming and going as the basis of human possibility and ethical value. The study examines the Beckett walk with reference to, for instance, cognitive theory, materialities theory, environmental studies, infrastructure theory, cultural and literary history, speech-act theory, mobility studies and performance studies.
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Online ISBN: 9781009180689
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Pilgrim's Gress: The Beckett Walk As Aesthetic Practice
  • Andre Furlani, Concordia University, Montréal
  • Online ISBN: 9781009180689
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Pilgrim's Gress: The Beckett Walk As Aesthetic Practice
  • Andre Furlani, Concordia University, Montréal
  • Online ISBN: 9781009180689
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