{"product_id":"the-affects-cognition-and-politics-cristina-ionica-9783030349011","title":"The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes \u003c\/i\u003etheorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Beckett's works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, exploitation, and repression, alongside unprecedented demands for high-volume information-processing and connectivity. Part I shows that, in generating consistent flows of solidarity-based angry laughter, Beckett's works sabotage coercive couplings of the subject to social machines by translating subordination and repression into \u003ci\u003eprocesses \u003c\/i\u003erather than \u003ci\u003edata\u003c\/i\u003e of experience. Through an examination of Beckett's attack on gender\/ class-related normative injunctions, the book shows that Beckett's works can generate solidarity and action-oriented affects in readers\/ spectators regardless of their training in textual analysis. Part II proposes that Beckett's works can weaken the cognitive dominance of constrictive \"frames\" in readers\/ audiences, so that toxic ideological formations such as the association of safety and comfort with simplicity and \"sameness\" are rejected and more complex cognitive operations are welcomed instead-a process that bolsters the mind's ability to operate at ease with increasingly complex, malleable, extensible, and inclusive frames, as well as with increasing volumes of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Ionica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030349012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030349011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d","brand":"Cristina Ionica","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073524461823,"sku":"9783030349011","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55576364-4257-4002-aaf0-ad4cbd78af2c.jpg?v=1685448328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-affects-cognition-and-politics-cristina-ionica-9783030349011","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}