Beckett's critical complicity : carnival, contestation, and tradition /

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 reproduci...

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Main Author: Henning, Sylvie Debevec
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Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
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