Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body: The Organs and Senses in Modernism

This book studies the representation of the body in Beckett's work, focusing on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', it aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was registered.

Author: Y. Tajiri
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.78w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780230008175

About the Author
YOSHIKI TAJIRI is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has written extensively on Samuel Beckett and Twentieth-century English Literature. He has also translated Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women into Japanese and edited a Japanese book on J.M. Coetzee.