Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose

by Jonathan Boulter

Book Overview

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short prose
Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose. These texts are notoriously difficult yet utterly compelling. This compelling difficulty arises from Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. His short texts offer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474430252
• ISBN13: 9781474430258
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"