Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-03835-1 (ISBN)
Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor is a collection of four essays bringing Kantor’s and Beckett’s texts, theatres, and theories into conversation with deconstruction, new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanism. This book is dedicated to two artists rarely discussed together to see how their awareness of poetics and performativity of matter might help us understand our connection to the material world, even if the world is falling apart. Jane Bennett, Karen Barad, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, and others pave the way for new critical interpretations of canonical works, which are recognised as universes “cluttered” with matter, objects, things, and other nonhuman visitors of seemingly exclusive human domains. Kisiel shows that Beckett’s and Kantor’s carefulness and care for imagining nonhuman/human relationships might refresh our understanding of memory, togetherness, death, or even the end of the world for the Anthropocene.
Michał Kisiel is a literary scholar, translator, editor, and assistant professor at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. In 2019, he received his PhD in literary studies. He has published in Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, ER(R)GO, Zoophilologica, and Review of International American Studies, among other places. He is an editorial team member of ER(R)GO: Theory – Literature – Culture and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences Commission on Literary History (Katowice Branch). His academic interests include experimental literature, deconstruction, materialist theories of the nonhuman, contemporary poetry, theatre and drama, and environmental humanities.
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
The Fear of Meaning Something
Cluttered Universes
Bringing Matter Back to Life
The Two Ends of the World
Putting the Void to Work
From Difference to Diffraction
Bibliography
CHAPTER 1. Diffraction of I: Diffractive Memories and Kantor’s Theatre of Death
Exit History
Dark Crammed Holes
Diffraction and Repetition
Photographic Apparatuses
Diffraction of I
Bibliography
CHAPTER 2. “Unspeakable Homes”: Uninhabitable Spaces and the Ruins of the Everyday World
I Am Not I, Therefore I Am (at Home)
The Parrot and the Grave
Dusty Archives
Elevating the Rags
Neither
Bibliography
CHAPTER 3. Resilient Survivors: Insects, Mannequins, and the Death of the Nonhuman
Nonhuman Noises, Excessive Images
Heretic Machines
Dying Is Never Death
The Logic of the Swarm
Coda: Insect Technologies
Bibliography
CHAPTER 4. Elsewhere but Here: Beckett’s Exhausted Ecologies and Liminal Intimacies
A Tree with Too Many Leaves
The Ecopoetics of Exhaustion
Thus Flesh and Bone Subsist
Intimacy Is Persistence
Global Failures
Bibliography
CONCLUSIONS
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
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| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-041-03835-6 / 1041038356 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-03835-1 / 9781041038351 |
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