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Joshua Powell

Discipline: English

Project Summary

Perception, Attention, Imagery: Samuel Beckett and the Psychological Experiment

Taking as its starting point Samuel Beckett's study of psychology in the 1930s, my thesis compares Beckett's prose and drama with particular psychological experiments. Ultimately, I suggest that Beckett's writing is, itself, a form of psychological experimentation. Beckett's works, I argue, position and stimulate human bodies in ways that allow us to better understand our complex, but partial, experiences of the world.

Supervisory Team

First Supervisor: Professor Laura Salisbury (English)

Second Supervisor: Professor Stephen Monsell (Psychology)

Wider Research Interests

Literary Modernism/Modernity
Samuel Beckett
Literature and Psychology/Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis
Approaches to the Face in Twentieth-Century Culture
Literature and Attention
Philip Roth
Contemporary Literature and Theory