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Samuel Beckett is often thought of as an experimental writer but little critical attention has been paid to the question of what the term ‘experimental’ means when applied to Beckett’s work (and arguably literature in general). One might suggest that to call Beckett an experimental writer is to identify him as a member of the avant-garde, placing his writing in opposition to more commercially-orientated, ‘mainstream’ works of literature. Alternatively, the term might be taken to highlight Beckett’s formal innovations – his capacity to change conceptions of what literature is and does. This study, though, will specify another way in which we might understand Beckett’s writing to be experimental. Drawing on Beckett’s engagement with experimental and therapeutic psychology, the study suggests that Beckett’s works might be seen as experiments in a more scientific sense. Through readings of his later works for page, stage and screen, the chapters of this study suggest that Beckett’s writing can contribute to our knowledge of psychological concepts such as perception, attention and mental imagery. Beckett’s works, I argue, might be defined as experimental insofar as they position and stimulate human bodies in ways that allow us to better understand our complex, but partial, experiences of the world.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-11-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:47:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_tp_me_bauru.pdf: 779832 bytes, checksum: 4935c2559268473aed6c26f9bd4c7e8e (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho apresenta uma análise das potencialidades da obra Serões de Dona Benta, de Monteiro Lobato, para o Ensino de Ciências. A partir do mapeamento, identificação e análise dos conceitos científicos e da concepção de ciência presente no texto desse livro, explanou-se sobre o uso da literatura de Lobato como material para o Ensino de Ciências. Com o apoio das orientações metodológicas da Análise Textual Discursiva, a obra foi categorizada em temas que se referem a conceitos científicos e a concepções de ciências do autor. Foi possível identificar uma série de situações vividas pelos personagens da história que relatam temas científicos, uma série de conceitos de Física, Química, Biologia, Filosofia das Ciências e a grande maioria com potencial para o Ensino de Ciências. Apresenta-se também uma revisão sobre as principais concepções de ciências na literatura para que se relacione com as encontradas no livro e observa-se que há uma idéia bastante forte de ciência como observação e constatação dos fenômenos da natureza, que se relaciona com uma visão empirista de ciências / This paper presents an analysis of the potential of the book Serões de Dona Benta of Monteiro Lobato, for Teaching Science. From the mapping, identification and analysis of scientific concepts and the development of science in the text of this book, explained to the literature on the use of Lobato as material for Science Education. Which the support of methodological guidelines Discourse Textual Analysis of the work was divided into topics that relate to scientific concepts and conceptions of sciences of the author. It was possible to identify a range of situations experienced by the characters in the story who report scientific issues, a number of concepts in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Philosophy of Science and the most potential for teaching Science. We also present a review of the main concepts in the literature to science that relates to those found in the book and notes that there is a very strong idea of sicence with observation and observation of the phenomena of nature, which relates to a vision empirical science

This dissertation explores the subject of heredity and its novelistic treatment c. 1850-1900. Though hereditary phenomena had long been incorporated into literary works, heredity acquired an unprecedented significance with Darwin’s theory of evolution. It became a central fact of life, generating both fascination and fear, but its exact workings remained unknown until the turn of the century. This left novelists some experimental leeway in creating fictional universes and characters in accordance with the nascent naturalistic worldview and in struggling with its philosophical implications. While work on nineteenth-century literature and science has focused significantly on evolution, I demonstrate that heredity is a more immediate human concern and is more intuitive to the form of the novel. The works considered here by George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Hardy grapple with an increasingly deterministic view of biology but also with other forms of inheritance, for most of the conditions that constitute and determine our lives are inherited. Chapter one discusses how the metaphor of inheritance became a powerful tool for portraying the complexities of life in a post-theological age. This dissertation is grounded in the history of science, and, beyond the common language shared between science, philosophy, and literature, I examine the role of narrative in the study of heredity, particularly in medical case histories, which formed an early point of contact with the novel. Chapter two is on Eliot’s treatment of the inextricable workings of legal, cultural, and biological inheritance in The Mill on the Floss, showing how the mismatch between theory and reality regarding these matters demoralizes the novel’s protagonists and inhibits their development. Chapter three contextualizes The Picture of Dorian Gray in the history of art and science, reading Dorian’s portrait as a device suggestive of metaphysical inheritance and the disruption of personal development, and the ancestral portraits in Dorian’s gallery as indications of the biological heredity that drives his self-destruction. Chapter four looks at Hardy’s technique of genealogical narrative and overdetermination in Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the novel’s engagement with debates over the value of pedigree and the pessimistic view of determinism at the century’s end. / 2020-09-29T00:00:00Z

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