Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett’s drama, viz. mis-movements. Sensitivity to the embodied aspects of life is topical in Beckett’s drama, but such mis-movements underwrite the intrinsic connections between sense and sense-making to safeguard an ethics of interpretation founded on embodied cognition. Tracing Beckett’s aesthetics of gesture back to its phenomenological and embodied roots, Einarsson suggests that the use of mis-movements in Beckett’s drama is a methodological solution to the predicament of expression that exposes the injustices done by language to audiences as embodied knowers. More than interpretative dilemmas, mis-movements offer conduits for spectators to re-connect with embodied experience. Thus, they are the poetic means through which an alternative ethics of interpretation begins to emerge.
Charlotta P. Einarsson
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson is a senior lecturer in English Literature at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. She is the author of A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett’s Drama (2017).
Håkan Larsson
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| Number of Pages | 238 |
| E-book format | PDF |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 27.03.2024 |
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| ISBN | 978-3-8382-7298-6 |
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