Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism

by James Baxter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030815714
• ISBN13: 9783030815714
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"