E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
Problems in Postmodernism
E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Progress in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-3-030-81572-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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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
th
and 21
st
centuryAmerica.
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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’?
