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Steven Belletto - The Beats, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

The Beats

A Literary History

Av Steven Belletto

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-03-12
  • Mått: 159 x 236 x 30 mm
  • Vikt: 790 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 476
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107176683
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Steven Belletto is Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 (2017). He is also co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (with Joseph Keith, 2019) and American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (with Daniel Grausam, 2012). He is currently editor for the journal Contemporary Literature.

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'If you're thinking 'Not another book about the Beats!', then think again. Steven Belletto's literary history is surely the first to bring together the rigorous command of scholarly and critical analysis found in specialist studies with the capacious engagement found in cultural histories or essay collections. The book's double achievement is to read deeply and yet wonder broadly, keeping the writing always center stage. Grasping both how the Beats have been represented and how 'representation' was itself the subject of their literary innovations, this is at once a sophisticated self-reflexive inquiry and a highly readable vademecum for anyone with an interest in the field.' Oliver Harris, President, European Beat Studies Association

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