{"title":"‘A form that accommodates the mess’: Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett’s Happy Days","authors":"Seán Kennedy, J. Valente","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456692.003.0022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The essay begins with Max Nordau’s theory of degeneration, which intact form signals cultural health and broken form cultural deterioration, to show how Samuel Beckett de-pathologized the indices of degeneracy by finding a form to “normalize” the messy feelings of non-normative experience. Beckett uses disability as aesthetic principle by formalising affect, thereby universalizing divergence from ideals of embodiment.","PeriodicalId":371259,"journal":{"name":"The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456692.003.0022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The essay begins with Max Nordau’s theory of degeneration, which intact form signals cultural health and broken form cultural deterioration, to show how Samuel Beckett de-pathologized the indices of degeneracy by finding a form to “normalize” the messy feelings of non-normative experience. Beckett uses disability as aesthetic principle by formalising affect, thereby universalizing divergence from ideals of embodiment.
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