Merging ‘the Zephyrs of Purgatory’ and ‘Old [Chinese] K’in Music’: The Modernist as Mystic Purist in Beckett’s Dream of Fair to Middling Women
This article explores the global influences of Chinese mysticism latent in Chinese K’in music and Christian mysticism on Beckett’s composition of Dream of Fair to Middling Women. I argue that Beckett’s portrayal of Belacqua as a mystic purist is the direct result of his creative appropriation of K’i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 281-303 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality KBM Asia NCA Ethics |
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