Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

SEVERING CONNECTIONS WITH IRELAND: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing

SEVERING CONNECTIONS WITH IRELAND: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing Beckett's female characterization in his early fiction is grotesque, devouring and sexually provocative. The intention of this article is to examine how such characterization is closely related to Beckett's resistance to the Irish Free State and the Celtic Revival movement by showing that the characterization can be attributed to the impulse to satirize the Celtic revivalists' portrayal of the idealized woman-as-Ireland. This article will argue that the male protagonists' attempt to achieve detachment from the possessive women in Beckett's early fiction gives expression to the author's desire for exile as well as to distance himself from the predominant literary nationalism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui Brill

SEVERING CONNECTIONS WITH IRELAND: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing

Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , Volume 15 (1): 57 – Nov 1, 2005

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/severing-connections-with-ireland-women-and-the-irish-free-state-in-maiFev05wd

References (6)

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright 2005 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0927-3131
eISSN
1875-7405
DOI
10.1163/18757405-015001008
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Beckett's female characterization in his early fiction is grotesque, devouring and sexually provocative. The intention of this article is to examine how such characterization is closely related to Beckett's resistance to the Irish Free State and the Celtic Revival movement by showing that the characterization can be attributed to the impulse to satirize the Celtic revivalists' portrayal of the idealized woman-as-Ireland. This article will argue that the male protagonists' attempt to achieve detachment from the possessive women in Beckett's early fiction gives expression to the author's desire for exile as well as to distance himself from the predominant literary nationalism.

Journal

Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'huiBrill

Published: Nov 1, 2005

There are no references for this article.