Beckett and Embodiment

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Beckett and Embodiment is written by Amanda M. Dennis and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474463010 (ISBN 10) and 9781474463010 (ISBN 13).

This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptualisation. Analysing the representation of the body in relation to the environment in Beckett's work, the author interrogates the power to do and act. Separating dynamic interaction from willed intention, Amanda Dennis shows how Beckett's oeuvre refashions subjectivity in dialogue with a disintegrating environment. The book provides a phenomenological reading of Beckett to argue that sensation and embodiment support our interactions with our material world, enabling possibilities for embodied agency in collaboration with our physical and linguistic surroundings.