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" Since Beckett : "
Peter Boxall.
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1043284
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b797654
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Boxall, Peter.
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Since Beckett : : contemporary writing in the wake of modernism /\ Peter Boxall.
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, ©2009.
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Continuum literary studies series
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1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) :: illustrations.
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1441100679
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: 1441115579
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: 9781441115577
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: 9781441178138
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: 9781472543196
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0826491677
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9780826491671
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
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Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Since Beckett; Part One: Back Roads: Beckett, Banville and Ireland; 1. Edgeworth, Bowen, Beckett, Banville: A Minor Tradition; 2. Spectrality and Eclipse: Beckett and Banville; 3. Unknown Unity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville; Part Two: Tune Accordingly: Beckett, Bernhard and Sebald; 4. Faint Clarity: Tuning in Beckett; 5. All Balls: Quotation and Correction in Beckett and Bernhard; 6. A Quite Singular Clarity: Beckett, Bernhard, Sebald.
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This is a fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence. Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist perio.
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989-- Influence.
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)-- History-- 20th century.
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Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.
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Literature, Modern.
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Modernism (Literature)
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848/.91409
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PR6003.E282Z5766 2009eb
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