Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body The

Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body is a study of the representation of the body in Samuel Beckett's work (both novels and plays) , specifically focused on the 'prosthetic' aspect of the organs and senses. While making use of the theoretical potential of the concept of 'prosthesis', this book aims to resituate Beckett in the broad cultural context of modernism in which the impact of new media and technologies was variously registered.

YOSHIKI TAJIRI is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has written extensively on Samuel Beckett and Twentieth-century English Literature. He has also translated Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women into Japanese and edited a Japanese book on J.M. Coetzee.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Prosthetic Body and Sexuality	p. 13
The masturbation machine in Dream of Fair to Middling Women	p. 13
Beckett and the bachelor machine	p. 19
The attempt to dam up flows	p. 24
The machine and sexuality in Beckett's later work	p. 30
The Question of Boundaries	p. 40
The body parts as prostheses	p. 41
Confusion of the organs	p. 47
The instability of the body's surface	p. 54
A critique of Deleuze and Guattari's discussions of Beckett	p. 63
The Prosthetic Body and Synaesthesia	p. 75
Fragmentation of the body and synaesthesia	p. 76
Technology and the transformation of the senses: three theories	p. 83
Synaesthesia in Beckett's early work	p. 91
Synaesthesia in Beckett's later work	p. 101
The Camera Eye	p. 109
Beckett and the cinema	p. 110
The camera eye/the naked eye	p. 116
The double and self-reflexivity	p. 122
Ill Seen Ill Said	p. 133
The Prosthetic Voice	p. 138
Beckett, Derrida, telecommunication	p. 140
Communication over distance: The Unnamable and How It Is	p. 145
The prosthetic voice and the ghostly	p. 151
The interpenetration between the material and the immaterial	p. 156
Notes	p. 169
References	p. 190
Index	p. 197
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Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body The Organs and Senses in Modernism

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