Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology: Perception, Attention, Imagery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350237421)

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 Psychologysheds important new light on Beckett's depictions of the workings of the embodied mind.

Author: Joshua Powell
ISBN-10: 1350237426
ISBN-13: 9781350237421
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d