Rudolph Wurlitzer, American Novelist and Screenwriter

by David Seed

This study gives a novel-by-novel analysis of Rudolph Wurlitzer's works, relating his fiction to the writings of the Beats, Beckett, and other influences. Each of his novels centres around a literal or metaphorical West where the cultural bearings of the protagonists are brought under pressure, returning again and again to issues of cultural breakdown and isolation. A separate chapter is devoted to his work for the cinema and the strong continuity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773496432
• ISBN13: 9780773496439
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 183 Pages