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Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett (Irish Studies)
Party Pieces Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett - Irish Studies
Author: Alan W. Friedman
Explores the Irish tradition of social performance embedded in James Joyce's fiction and Samuel Beckett's plays. "Irishness" has often meant self-dramatization because Ireland is commonly represented as a nation of storytellers, musicians, and virtuoso performers. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780815631484
ISBN-10: 0815631480
Publication Date: 10/30/2007
Pages: 258
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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