Drawing on the ideas of Jonathan Crary, this article positions Gertrude Stein and Beckett as part of a wider investigation of inattention in twentieth-century culture. Considering first the psychological experiments of Stein, and then Beckett’s theatre of the 1970s, the article argues for the importance to literary modernism of language that is not perceived, or only dimly perceived, and exists on the fringes and peripheries of a perceptual field.
En s’ appuyant sur les idées de Jonathan Crary, cet article examine les œuvres de Gertrude Stein et de Beckett dans le cadre d’ une analyse plus vaste autour de l’ inattention dans la culture du XXe siècle. L’ article considère d’ abord les expériences psychologiques de Stein et ensuite le théâtre de Beckett des années 1970s pour mettre en évidence le poids, pour le modernisme littéraire, d’ un langage qui n’ est pas perçu, ou qui n’ est que faiblement perçu, et qui existe dans les marges et dans la périphérie d’ un champ perceptuel.
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Drawing on the ideas of Jonathan Crary, this article positions Gertrude Stein and Beckett as part of a wider investigation of inattention in twentieth-century culture. Considering first the psychological experiments of Stein, and then Beckett’s theatre of the 1970s, the article argues for the importance to literary modernism of language that is not perceived, or only dimly perceived, and exists on the fringes and peripheries of a perceptual field.
En s’ appuyant sur les idées de Jonathan Crary, cet article examine les œuvres de Gertrude Stein et de Beckett dans le cadre d’ une analyse plus vaste autour de l’ inattention dans la culture du XXe siècle. L’ article considère d’ abord les expériences psychologiques de Stein et ensuite le théâtre de Beckett des années 1970s pour mettre en évidence le poids, pour le modernisme littéraire, d’ un langage qui n’ est pas perçu, ou qui n’ est que faiblement perçu, et qui existe dans les marges et dans la périphérie d’ un champ perceptuel.
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