In her exploration of the quest for God in Beckett's fiction, Barge discloses a powerful substratum of thematic and narrative movements underlying the rhetoric of Beckett's texts. By studying examples of myth-making structures in representative selections of the fiction, she reveals their profundity and centrality to the whole of Beckett's visionary thought and art. Selections range from Assumption to Company, with attention focused both on the texts and on the criticism concerning them.
| ISBN: | 9780807892350 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1988 |
| Author: | Laura Inez Deavenport Barge, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Publisher: | UNC Department of Romance Studies an imprint of The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 346 pages |
| Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary companions, book reviews and guides Literary studies: general |