âForgetting to Beâ
Experience of the Natural and Self-Loss in Molloy
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This essay reads Molloy (1951) alongside theories of defamiliarization and aesthetic receptiveness to that which is outside the self developed by Kant, Edmund Burke, Schopenhauer, Viktor Shklovsky, and Heidegger, and comments on contemporary post-human scholarshipâs orientation to objects and the natural world. Molloy, a subject constantly aware of his pained, decaying body, is able to escape the bounds of his self during intensely powerful, aesthetic experiences of the natural world. These instances destroy habit, allowing the subject to experience the vivid âpresencingâ of the outside world and to gain a temporary reprieve from existence via a state of non-being.
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âForgetting to Beâ
Experience of the Natural and Self-Loss in Molloy
In: Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'huiSearch for other papers by Matthew Trammell in
Current site
Google Scholar
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This essay reads Molloy (1951) alongside theories of defamiliarization and aesthetic receptiveness to that which is outside the self developed by Kant, Edmund Burke, Schopenhauer, Viktor Shklovsky, and Heidegger, and comments on contemporary post-human scholarshipâs orientation to objects and the natural world. Molloy, a subject constantly aware of his pained, decaying body, is able to escape the bounds of his self during intensely powerful, aesthetic experiences of the natural world. These instances destroy habit, allowing the subject to experience the vivid âpresencingâ of the outside world and to gain a temporary reprieve from existence via a state of non-being.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 264 | 56 | 8 |
| Full Text Views | 199 | 0 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 40 | 0 | 0 |
