Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetics of Inattention

Powell, Joshua 2018. Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett and the Aesthetics of Inattention. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 30 (2) , pp. 239-252. 10.1163/18757405-03002008

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Abstract

Drawing on the ideas of Jonathan Crary, this article positions Gertrude Stein and Beckett as part of a wider investigation of inattention in twentieth-century culture. Considering first the psychological experiments of Stein, and then Beckett’s theatre of the 1970s, the article argues for the importance to literary modernism of language that is not perceived, or only dimly perceived, and exists on the fringes and peripheries of a perceptual field.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers
ISSN:	1875-7405
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 October 2022
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 02:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/151613

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