Beckett and Embodiment

Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60’s and 80’sThe first study of Beckett and Merleau-Ponty as thinkers of space, this book asks how the body’s relation to its surroundings both limits and enables agencyShows how Beckett and Merleau-Ponty inform contemporary debates about post-humanism, ecology and