Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism

by Peter Boxall

Book Overview

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 period, in another sense he is the well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441178139
• ISBN13: 9781441178138
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"