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Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form
By (author) Trish McTighe
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Beckett's work is somewhat out of step with the logic of commemoration and celebration. Festival, with its association with celebration, spectacle, and publicity, would not seem the ideal vehicle for Beckett's work. Yet that work has become highly festivalised, and the incongruities between it and festival forms provide a useful basis from which to examine both Beckett as festivalised commodity and festivals themselves. Festivalising Beckett in Ireland might be characterised as a way of bringing him back home, as well as a way of returning him to the canonical fold - he showed little interest in either during his later years, it need hardly be added. This Element examines Beckett's dissidence in the face of these imperatives of nation, home and the canon, utilising Beckett's work in festival contexts to highlight in the negative the nature of the festival form and to critique the festivalisation of culture.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 26 Jan 2023
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 70
Dimensions | 230 x 154 x 5mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 150g
ISBN | 978-1-1089-6569-9
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