María Laura Arce Álvarez

Paul Auster's Ghosts

The Echoes of European and American Tradition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an intertextual study of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy focusing on the influence of the main authors of the American Renaissance and the modern European tradition, represented by Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781498561655
• ISBN-10: 1498561659
• Artikelnr.: 74437264

Autorenporträt

María Laura Arce Álvarez is assistant professor of American literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Paul Auster's Metafiction and Intertextuality in Context
2. The Writer and the Typist: City of Glass and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by
Herman Melville
3. The Writer and his Doubles: Ghosts and "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Invisible Writer: The Locked Room and Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. The Trilogy of Absence: Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy and Samuel
Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable
6. Translating Influence: The New York Trilogy as a Fictionalization of
Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature
Afterword