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100 1 a| Maude, Ulrika,e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvtbxwYcwvjVkYMQTkkXd=| ^A1208754;

245 10 a| Samuel Beckett and medicine /c| Ulrika Maude, University of Bristol.;

264 1 a| Cambridge, United Kingdom ;a| New York, NY :b| Cambridge University Press,c| 2025.;

300 a| viii, 213 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Beckett's medical imagination -- Poetry, illness and medicine -- Chronic conditions : Keats, Johnson and Beckett -- Convulsive aesthetics : Charcot, Chaplin and Gilles de la Tourette -- Nerve theory, conditioned reflex and literary form -- Writing viscera : Beckett's inhuman domain -- 'Temporarily sane' : Beckett and modernist suicide -- Beckett's affective telepoetics.;

520 a| "Samuel Beckett and Medicine offers the first sustained analysis of the author's abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability, ageing, and dying in his work. It analyses Beckett's representation of the production of language, offering new ways of understanding the often perplexing formal and stylistic experimentation of his work. The book addresses the many automatic and habitual functions staged in his writing and considers the impact of nerve theory, reflexes, affect, and the viscera on his work. It advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose, and television and stage plays, drawing on his reading notes on medicine and psychology, and on his correspondence and critical writings. Through its refusal to aestheticize embodied experience or to yield to the metaphysical consolations of literature, Beckett's work challenges us to confront the intricacies of embodied being and to encounter the question of finitude."--c| provided by publisher.;

600 10 a| Beckett, Samuel,d| 1906-1989.=| ^A634877;

650 0 a| Medicine in literature.=| ^A797;

650 0 a| English literaturey| 20th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A23017;

650 0 a| English literaturex| Irish authorsx| History and criticism.=| ^A43157;

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Samuel Beckett and medicine / Ulrika Maude, University of Bristol.

Author/creator	Maude, Ulrika author.
Format	Book
Publication	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	viii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Medicine in literature. English literature--20th century. --History and criticism. English literature--Irish authors. --History and criticism.

Contents	Introduction: Beckett's medical imagination -- Poetry, illness and medicine -- Chronic conditions : Keats, Johnson and Beckett -- Convulsive aesthetics : Charcot, Chaplin and Gilles de la Tourette -- Nerve theory, conditioned reflex and literary form -- Writing viscera : Beckett's inhuman domain -- 'Temporarily sane' : Beckett and modernist suicide -- Beckett's affective telepoetics.
Abstract	"Samuel Beckett and Medicine offers the first sustained analysis of the author's abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability, ageing, and dying in his work. It analyses Beckett's representation of the production of language, offering new ways of understanding the often perplexing formal and stylistic experimentation of his work. The book addresses the many automatic and habitual functions staged in his writing and considers the impact of nerve theory, reflexes, affect, and the viscera on his work. It advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose, and television and stage plays, drawing on his reading notes on medicine and psychology, and on his correspondence and critical writings. Through its refusal to aestheticize embodied experience or to yield to the metaphysical consolations of literature, Beckett's work challenges us to confront the intricacies of embodied being and to encounter the question of finitude."-- provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Maude, Ulrika. Samuel Beckett and medicine Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025 9781108840736
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9781108887540
LCCN	2024052644
ISBN	9781108840736
ISBN	1108840736 hardcover
ISBN	electronic publication

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