The Beats : a literary history /
"Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation--but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also radiates out to discuss d...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation--but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also radiates out to discuss dozens more writers and their works, showing how they all contributed to one of the most far-reaching literary movements of the post-World-War-II era. Moving from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, this book explores key aesthetic and thematic innovations of the Beat writers, the pervasiveness of the Beatnik caricature, the role of the counterculture in the post-war era, the involvement of women in the Beat project, and the changing face of Beat political engagement during the Vietnam War era"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-452) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107176683 1107176689 9781316629918 1316629910 |