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Charlotta Palmstier Einarsson, Paul Stewart (Beteiligte)

A Theatre of Affect


The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckettīs Drama
Herausgegeben von Stewart, Paul
Auflage. 2017. 216 S. 210 mm
Verlag/Jahr: IBIDEM 2017
ISBN: 3-8382-1068-9 (3838210689)
Neue ISBN: 978-3-8382-1068-1 (9783838210681)

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Combining phenomenological analysis with dance and performance analysis and affect theory, A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckettīs Drama takes stock of the various ways in which the body in Samuel Beckettīs drama participates in the affective ecology of performance. Affect is here located in the materiality of the body and discussed in relation to the symbolic significance of, for instance, the effort, direction, speed, or duration of a posture, movement, or gesture. Although the meaning of the body in Beckettīs stage-images cannot be mapped onto conventional discursive īmeaningsī, the significance of the bodyīs formal modulations is affective in the sense that the import of such changes is immediately recognised and felt as īsignificantī by spectators. Beckettīs theatre of affect therefore predicates on the infinitesimal stirrings of subliminal meaning-making that continuously shape and create the world in experience.
Charlotta P. Einarsson received her PhD from Stockholm University (Mis-Movements: The Aesthetics of Gesture in Samuel Beckettīs Drama), but she also has a degree in professional dance from the Ballet Academy (Stockholm) and a degree in dance pedagogy, with a specialty in classical ballet, from the University College of Dance (Stockholm). Although a literary scholar, her previous experience as a dancer has continued to guide her research into the significance of the body in literature and art. Her forthcoming publications include a study on the reception of Samuel Beckettīs drama in Sweden.