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Samuel Beckett and experimental psychology : perception, attention, imagery

Title
Samuel Beckett and experimental psychology : perception, attention, imagery / Joshua Powell.
Author
Powell, Joshua
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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Description
207 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind. Samuel Beckett and Psychology is an innovative study of the author's engagement with key concepts in early experimental psychology and rapidly developing scientific ideas about perception, attention and mental imagery. Through innovative new readings of Beckett's later dramatic and prose works, the book reveals the links between his aesthetic method and the methodologies of experimental psychology through the 20th century. Covering important later works including Happy Days, Not I and Footfalls, Samuel Beckett and Psychology sheds important new light on Beckett's depictions of the workings of the embodied mind"--
Series Statement
Historicizing modernism
Uniform Title
Historicizing modernism.
Subject
  • Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Knowledge > Psychology
  • Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Aesthetics
  • Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
  • 1900-1999
  • Psychology in literature
  • Mind and body in literature
  • Perception in literature
  • Imagery (Psychology) in literature
  • Psychology and literature > History > 20th century
  • Aesthetics
  • Psychology
  • Psychology and literature
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Literary Experiments and the Work of Samuel Beckett -- Experimental Transitions -- Attention and Speech Perception in Not I -- Face Reading and Attentional Management in That Time -- Inattention in Footfalls -- Beckett and the Mental Image -- Percept and Image in Nohow On -- Conclusion: Experimental Beckett
Call Number
JFE 20-4413
ISBN
  • 9781350091726
  • 1350091723
  • 9781350091733 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781350091740 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019039806
OCLC
1110441388
Author
Powell, Joshua, author.
Title
Samuel Beckett and experimental psychology : perception, attention, imagery / Joshua Powell.
Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Historicizing modernism
Historicizing modernism.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Powell, Joshua, Samuel Beckett and experimental psychology New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 9781350091733 (DLC) 2019039807
Research Call Number
JFE 20-4413
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