María Laura Arce Álvarez

Paul Auster's Ghosts

The Echoes of European and American Tradition

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9781498561631
• ISBN-10: 1498561632
• Artikelnr.: 52421352

Autorenporträt

María Laura Arce Álvarez is an assistant professor in the English Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. She has a PhD on American and Comparative Literature. Her field of study focuses on Postmodern American Literature and Literary Theory concretely on Paul Auster's fiction. She has published several articles on Paul Auster's fiction, Native American Fiction, American Fiction during the McCarthy Era and Women's Poetry. She has authored the book Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot published by McFarland Books in 2016 and Paul Auster's Ghosts: The Echoes of European and American Tradition published by Lexington Books in 2018.

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