Critics have long recognised the links between community festivals and literary art. The comedies and tragedies of the ancient Greeks grew out of their festivals. Anglo-Saxon poetry was often read at festive occasions. And, as such critics as Northrop Frye and C L Barber have shown, the structural patterns of Renaissance drama are inseparable from their festive origins. In "The Life of the Party". Christopher Ames argues that the private party has become the festival of modern culture and has served as a shaping force in ...
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Critics have long recognised the links between community festivals and literary art. The comedies and tragedies of the ancient Greeks grew out of their festivals. Anglo-Saxon poetry was often read at festive occasions. And, as such critics as Northrop Frye and C L Barber have shown, the structural patterns of Renaissance drama are inseparable from their festive origins. In "The Life of the Party". Christopher Ames argues that the private party has become the festival of modern culture and has served as a shaping force in the fiction of many important 20th-century writers. Drawing upon and extending the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and others, Ames contends that parties have inherited much of the spirit and social function of earlier community wide festivals and carnivals. Showing how the growth of the modern novel parallels the emergence of the private party as the main form of modern celebration. Ames examines the centrality of party scenes and the festive vision in works by several British and American authors. In the experimental fiction of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, the mingling of many voices at the party challenges both social and narrative decorum. For F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, and Henry Green, the party becomes a microcosm of a decadent society and informs a festive vision characteristic of the literature that emerged between the wars. And in postmodern works by Thomas Pynchon and Robert Coover, the novelists celebrate the disruptive and liberating force of parties even as they illustrate the dangers of chaos through scenes of the party-gone-wild. With its creative applications of literary theory and ethnographic studies of festival, "The Life of the Party" demonstrates the persistence of the festive vision and its significance in the evolution of modern fiction.
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