Beckett's Dedalus: Dialogical Engagements with Joyce in Beckett's Fiction

by P.J. Murphy

Given that the Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was personally acquainted with the modernist master James Joyce, and even helped research and promote Finnegans Wake, it should come as no surprise that Beckett was greatly influenced by Joyce's own work. However, much analysis of Beckett's work tends to argue that he forged his own artistic identity in opposition to Joyce, seeking and eventually finding styles and methods unoccupied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802097960
• ISBN13: 9780802097965
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher