Sharing her Bewilderment: Not I, Experimentation and the Perception of Speech

What is it about?

Through a consideration of the 1972 play Not I, this article argues that Samuel Beckett's aesthetic works can be seen as experiments that investigate psychophysiological concepts, such as perception and attention. Reading Beckett's play alongside various psychological experiments on auditory and visual speech perception, the article concludes that Beckett's work can be seen as scientifically-informed aesthetic experimentation, though not scientific research.

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