Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g
Reihe: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
Problems in Postmodernism
Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g
Reihe: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 978-3-030-81571-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Beckett’s dissemination in America, following the author’s long-standing relationship with the countercultural magazine Evergreen Review and its dramatic role in redrawing the possibilities of American culture in the 1960s. While Beckett would be largely removed from his American context, this book follows his vigorous, albeit sometimes awkward, reception alongside the authors and institutions central to shaping his legacies in 20 and 21 centuryAmerica.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
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’?
