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Title: | Let's wait and see : Twisted Affinities between Beckett and Friel (2017) |
Authors: | Maria GERMANOU, Author |
Material Type: | Article |
In : | Irish University Review (Vol 47 n 2 supplément Autumn/Winter 2017) |
Article on page: | p. 486-501 |
Languages: | English |
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Abstract: | This article discusses Beckett's and Friel's interest in waiting in the context of Jacques Derrida's notions of ‘messianism’ and the ‘messianic’. Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Friel's Freedom of the City and Wonderful Tennessee associate waiting with a dislike of closure and endorse a future which evades determination and lies outside the current rigid, rational, and legitimate concepts. Yet contrary to Beckett's tramps who are unable to cope with the radical openness of the future and are confined to repetition, Friel's characters embrace a future that remains open to self difference and struggle to move beyond the inadequacy of the familiar and the feasible. |
Publishing country : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
Collection : | Médiathèque |