The eye of the Beckettian present

Redmond, Sean and Wagner, Matt 2007, The eye of the Beckettian present, Screening the past, vol. July, no. 21, pp. 1-11.

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	School of Communication and Creative Arts

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Title	The eye of the Beckettian present
Author(s)	Redmond, Sean Wagner, Matt
Journal name	Screening the past
Volume number	July
Issue number	21
Start page	1
End page	11
Publisher	La Trobe University
Place of publication	Bundoora, Vic.
Publication date	2007-07-20
ISSN	1328-9756
Summary	In this article, we take up M‟s closing question from Play, arguing that it is the central phenomenological conundrum in much of Beckett‟s stage and screen work. The question we bring to Beckett‟s oeuvre is: what is the relationship between perception and presence, consciousness and corporeality? To answer „yes‟ to M‟s question – to be is as much as being seen – is to render the body not utterly useless, but periphery, or secondary, merely the flesh of perception. Beckett famously remarked that, in his increasing sense of minimalism, in his desire to „say the least necessary‟, his final work would be a blank piece of paper. In Beckett, does the body suffer the same fate as language?
Language	eng
Field of Research	199999 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective	970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing
HERDC Research category	C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2007, La Trobe University
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30032892

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