Abstract This article examines the world of mud in Beckett’s How It Is as a psychic milieu indispensable to his aesthetic practice. Through comparative analysis with Suzuki’s concepts of ‘earth’ and ‘material-spiritual,’ and Bion’s analytical space informed by Keats’s ‘negative capability,’ it argues that these three milieus reflect fundamental conditions underlying artistic creation, religious...
Insofar as writing can be regarded as a form of thinking, authors' manuscripts may serve as tools for interdisciplinary research in the area between literary studies and cognitive philosophy. This article studies the manuscript versions of Beckett's late texts “Ceiling” and as a case study to analyze the ways in which genetic Beckett studies can contribute to recent “enactivist” developments in...