{"product_id":"posthuman-space-in-samuel-becketts-short-prose-paperback","title":"Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Boulter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short prose\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan 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 instead an image of a being who may be posthumous, or ultimately beyond categories of life and death. And yet, despite this dismantling, the narrators of these texts still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a philosophical reading of Samuel Beckett\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRethinks Beckett in relation to the posthuman\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributes to a relatively ignored aspect of Samuel Beckett's writing, the short prose\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 posthuman subject in his short prose. These texts are utterly compelling yet notoriously difficult because of Beckett's radical dismantling of the idea of the human. They offer an image of a being who may be posthumous, or at least existing in a state of nostalgia for what has been lost, yet the narrators still find themselves placed within material, recognisable, spaces. This book explores what the idea of 'world' can mean to a subject who appears to have moved into a material, even ecological, space that is beyond categories of life and death, being and world. Jonathan Boulter is Professor of English at Western University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Boulter is Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His publications include: \u003ci\u003ePosthuman Space in Samuel Beckett's Short Prose\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh UP, 2019), \u003ci\u003eParables of the Posthuman: Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State UP, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eMelancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel\u003c\/i\u003e (Continuum, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42102909501575,"sku":"9781474430265","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0f10030613791c03d1697c2b5f2330f3.webp?v=1732408547","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/posthuman-space-in-samuel-becketts-short-prose-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}