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beckett's critical complicity: carnival, contestation, and tradition
Sylvie Debevic Henning
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University Press of Kentucky
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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