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Beckett's intermedial bodies : remediating theatre through radio
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Author
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Abstract
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| When Beckett started writing for the radio, he clearly distinguished it from theatre: the one was intended for voices, the other for bodies. However, a convergence soon began taking place in which the body of Beckett’s theatre gradually became reconceptualised under the ‘disembodying’ influence of the radio medium. Notwithstanding his earlier disavowal, the body is a near continuous presence in Beckett's early radio drama, though a complicated and ambiguous one. Starting with 'All That Fall', then moving on to 'Embers' and, briefly, to the other radio plays, this chapter argues that Beckett’s experience with the medium in the late 1950s and the early 1960s ‘remediated’ his approach to the body in his late theatre, with 'Footfalls', written in the mid-1970s, representing a culmination point. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Beckett and media / Rapcsak, B. [edit.]; et al. [edit.]
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Publication
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Manchester
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Manchester University Press
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2022
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ISBN
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978-1-5261-4583-3
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Volume/pages
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p. 107-122
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