Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett

by Alan W. Friedman

Book Overview

"Irishness" has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented, and has historically represented itself, as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance. In this groundbreaking work, Alan Warren Friedman explores the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631480
• ISBN13: 9780815631484
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"