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Beckett's Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts

Beckett's Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts

Goudouna, Sozita

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 1474452701
ISBN13: 9781474452700
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Aug 7 2019
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual arts
Samuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism.

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