LEADER 04651nam 22007335 450 001 9910510566403321 005 20230810173502.0 010 $a9783030815721 010 $a3030815722 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-81572-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6819055 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6819055 035 $a(CKB)19956227900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1287130818 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-81572-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919956227900041 100 $a20211130d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSamuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction $eProblems in Postmodernism /$fby James Baxter 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (263 pages) 225 1 $aNew Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century,$x2945-6800 311 08$aPrint version: Baxter, James Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030815714 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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'? 330 $aSamuel 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, 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 book 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 20th and 21st century America. Everyone knows Beckett's 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. 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