Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction

Problems in Postmodernism

AvJames Baxter

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:356 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030815745

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Dr James Baxter was awarded his PhD at the University of Reading in 2018, where he specialized in Beckett’s legacy on Postmodern American Literature. James has published articles in high-profile journals such as Textual Practice, and continues to contribute essays and reviews on popular film and music for a variety of outlets. Forthcoming projects include a study concerning the prevalence of populist poetics in American periodical culture in the 60s and 70s.

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Introduction: Beckett in America: ‘somehow not the right country’.- Chapter 1: The Evergreen Review: Beckett and the American ‘underground’.- Chapter 2: Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme and Metafictional Style After Beckett: Problems and Pratfalls.- Chapter 3: Opposing Tendencies in the Exhaustive Fiction of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon: ‘Between zero and one’.- Chapter 4: Don DeLillo’s Reinvention of ‘Beckett World’.- Chapter 5: Paul Auster, Lydia Davis and Beckett’s Post-millennial Legacies.- Conclusion: a ‘postmodern icon’?