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03878aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 3FBDBB10072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210623s2021 sz a b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3030815714 020 $a 9783030815714 035 $a (OCoLC)1257401535 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6003.E382 $b B39 2021 082 04 $a 828.91209 $2 23 100 1 $a Baxter, James, $e author. 245 10 $a Samuel Beckett's legacies in American fiction : $b problems in postmodernism / $c James Baxter. 264 1 $a Cham : $b Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, $c [2021] 300 $a ix, 262 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century 520 $a Samuel Becketts Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Becketts rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Becketts post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this book provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Becketts dissemination in America, following the authors 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 20th and 21st century America. Everyone knows Becketts influence is global, but this is the first study to examine his influence on fiction in America with the thoroughness the topic deserves. It is a fresh, lucid, and necessary book, which sheds fascinating new light not just on Beckett but on postmodernism and its legacy. Bran Nicol, Professor of English Literature, University of Surrey James Baxter has achieved brilliant new insights about Beckett's legacy by carefully tracing some of the contexts and engagements created by his presence in American writing. This book has important implications, not just within the fields of Beckett Studies and modern American fiction, but also more broadly with regard to thinking about literary influence. Professor Steven Matthews (University of Reading). 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 DeLillos Reinvention of Beckett World -- Chapter 5: Paul Auster, Lydia Davis and Becketts Post-millennial Legacies -- Conclusion: a postmodern icon? 600 10 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989 $x Influence. 600 17 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00035621 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9783030815721 830 0 $a New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3FBDBB10072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search