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In the following essay, Connelly investigates the relationship between the short stories in More Pricks than Kicks and the visual arts, particularly the work of the Irish painter Jack Yeats.
When the ...
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In the following essay, Hunter determines the influence of Joyce's Dubliners on More Pricks than Kicks.
Reviewing More Pricks than Kicks in 1934, Edwin Muir identified a Beckett very much at ho...
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In the following excerpt, Cochran surveys Beckett's early short fiction, including his short story collection More Pricks than Kicks.
“assumption”
Samuel Beckett was 23, a scholar...
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In the following essay, Vandervlist identifies the repudiation of action as a unifying theme of the stories in More Pricks than Kicks.
Samuel Beckett's early stories may not appear, at first si...
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Critical Essay by Joseph F. Connelly
