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- catalog abstract "Readers often find Beckett's fiction forbidding because he abandons conventional methods and introduces new formal devices. In Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction Rubin Rabinovitz, a pre-eminent Beckett scholar, provides comprehensive descriptions of those devices, explains how they are used, and clarifies how they contribute to Beckett's underlying ideas. As an example, Rabinovitz points out that more than 1,000 significant elements recur in Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. These emphasize elusive ideas, such as the mysterious affinities of thought linking the protagonists in these works or suggestions that different characters represent aspects of a single embryonic persona who is never explicitly described. Rabinovitz also discusses Beckett's use of narrative, chronology, setting, characterization, allusions, mythic parallels, and figurative language.".
- catalog contributor b3788609.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "1. Obscurity and Innovation in Beckett's Fiction -- 2. Time, Space, and Verisimilitude in Beckett's Fiction -- 3. Style and the Quest for Knowledge in Watt and the Trilogy -- 4. Molloy and the Archetypal Traveler -- 5. Repetition and Underlying Meanings in Beckett's Trilogy -- 6. Dante and the Metaphorical Representation of Intangible Reality -- 7. Beckett's New Figurative Language -- 8. Fizzles and Beckett's Earlier Fiction -- 9. The Self Contained: Images of Enclosure in the Later Fiction -- 10. Psychology and Beckett's Concept of Inner Reality -- 11. Stereoscopic or Stereotypic: Beckett's Characterizations -- 12. Conclusion: Beckett's Achievement.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Readers often find Beckett's fiction forbidding because he abandons conventional methods and introduces new formal devices. In Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction Rubin Rabinovitz, a pre-eminent Beckett scholar, provides comprehensive descriptions of those devices, explains how they are used, and clarifies how they contribute to Beckett's underlying ideas. As an example, Rabinovitz points out that more than 1,000 significant elements recur in Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. These emphasize elusive ideas, such as the mysterious affinities of thought linking the protagonists in these works or suggestions that different characters represent aspects of a single embryonic persona who is never explicitly described. Rabinovitz also discusses Beckett's use of narrative, chronology, setting, characterization, allusions, mythic parallels, and figurative language.".
- catalog extent "xi, 218 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Innovation in Samuel Beckett's fiction.".
- catalog identifier "0252019415 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Innovation in Samuel Beckett's fiction.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Innovation in Samuel Beckett's fiction.".
- catalog subject "843/.914 20".
- catalog subject "Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 Fictional works.".
- catalog subject "Experimental fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR6003.E282 Z78875 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Obscurity and Innovation in Beckett's Fiction -- 2. Time, Space, and Verisimilitude in Beckett's Fiction -- 3. Style and the Quest for Knowledge in Watt and the Trilogy -- 4. Molloy and the Archetypal Traveler -- 5. Repetition and Underlying Meanings in Beckett's Trilogy -- 6. Dante and the Metaphorical Representation of Intangible Reality -- 7. Beckett's New Figurative Language -- 8. Fizzles and Beckett's Earlier Fiction -- 9. The Self Contained: Images of Enclosure in the Later Fiction -- 10. Psychology and Beckett's Concept of Inner Reality -- 11. Stereoscopic or Stereotypic: Beckett's Characterizations -- 12. Conclusion: Beckett's Achievement.".
- catalog title "Innovation in Samuel Beckett's fiction / Rubin Rabinovitz.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".