Beckett's Critical Complicity : Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition / Sylvie Debevec Henning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henning, Sylvie Debevec.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnival in literature.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Samuel Beckett's work harbors an inevitable complicity with traditional modes and values. His idealist and even nihilist inclinations, for example, are closely related to the abstracting and systematizing tendencies that have predominated in Western thinking. His drama and fiction, in reproducing these tendencies, also help to reinforce and legitimate them. Beckett's work can thus be said to encourage an attitude of stoic resignation or life-denying withdrawal.Sylvie Debevec Henning's study reveals an important countertendency. In examining Beckett's art and literary criticism, his novel Murp

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Accompliced Critic; Chapter 1. The Poet Membered; Chapter 2. Murphy's Caelum; Chapter 3. Variations on the Hermeneutic Theme; Chapter 4. Dialogues with the Double; Chapter 5. The Solicitation of Science; Conclusion: Literature and Its Discontents; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [200]-222.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813158600

0813158605

OCLC:

765817009