Samuel Beckett's legacies in American fiction : problems in postmodernism /: problems in postmodernism. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Baxter.
• Authors: Baxter, James
• Contents: 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'?.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 828.91209; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030815721
• Related ISBNs: 9783030815714
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