Introduction

McTighe, Trish

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“…Just as the central nervous system relies on the integration of different sensory modalities to connect with cognitive functions (Mesulam 1998), Beckett adeptly employs intermedial techniques to characterize human interiority. Recent Beckett scholarship has abundantly demonstrated the intermedial dimension in Beckett’s works (McTighe 2020; McMullen 2022), and it is the goal of this article to highlight specifically the interconnections between intermediality and human mind in Beckett’s teleplays. Television, the latest and most integrative medium during Beckett’s time, combines techniques of radio broadcasting and film shooting, already being intermedial itself and highly appealing to synaesthesia (McLuhan 1994: 336).…”

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Intermedial Performativity and the Human Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Teleplays

Chen

2023

European Review

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Samuel Beckett’s corpus centres on the characterization, examination and imaginative exploration of the human mind, encompassing the realms of consciousness, cognition and perception. In his teleplays, this focus is distinctively achieved through the performances of different media, which this article refers to as ‘intermedial performativity’. This term not only designates the semiotic contents of performance in intermedial forms, but also highlights the cooperative performances of the material media themselves, along with their uncharted possibilities and effects. This article delves into the ways in which intermedial performativity in Beckett’s teleplays realizes several unique configurations of the human mind, such as its split state and its transfiguration to a posthuman condition. This exploration not only sheds light on Beckett’s artistic vision and cosmic ontology, but also brings attention to the reverberations and implications of intermediality for humanity and its potential transformations.

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