Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition by Henning, Sylvie Debevic

Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813116648)

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Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition by Henning, Sylvie Debevic

Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition

$30.00
Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition by Henning, Sylvie Debevic

Beckett's Critical Complicity: Carnival, Contestation, and Tradition

$30.00
Format: Hardcover
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" Winner of the Midwest MLA Book Award 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 withdra

Author: Sylvie Debevic Henning
ISBN-10: 0813116643
ISBN-13: 9780813116648
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/14/1988
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
By Sylvie Debevic Henning
By Sylvie Debevic Henning
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Sylvie Debevic Henning, associate professor of French at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, is the author of Genet's Ritual Play.

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