Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Copyright; BECKETT'S BREATH; contents; Acknowledgements; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: IN THE SAME BREATH − FROM THE BLACK BOX TO THE WHITE CUBE AND BEYOND; PART I RESPIRATION, DISCOURSE AND THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY; 1 DEEPTIME: BREATH AND THE LOOK OF NON-ART; 2 THE DURATIONAL TURN: ABSORPTION AND THE SPECIFICITY OF TEMPORALITY; PART II (RE)PRESENTING BREATH; 3 SHORTNESS OF BREATH: BECKETT'S BREATH IN CONTEXT; 4 EMPTIED OF THEATRE: BREATH AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF DISEMBODIMENT; PART III THE EXHALED FIEL; 5 WASTE OF BREATH: THE READYMADE AS A STAGE SET
6 INTERMEDIAL BREATH: DEFYING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DISPLAYING AND STAGING7 INVESTIGATING THE MATERIALITY OF RESPIRATION IN DIFFERENT MEDIA; CONCLUSION: THE AFTERLIVES OF BREATH: BREATHE, BREATHE AGAIN ... BREATHE BETTER; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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This book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse.