The Beat Generation Writers - Hardcover

Docherty, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745306608 ISBN 13: 9780745306605

Verlag: Pluto Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This collection focuses on icons of the Beat generation as well as lesser known figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. It also includes an exploration of the role of women and gender through the work of writers such as Carolyn Cassady and Bonnie Bremser. Beat Generation Writers uncovers the key influences on the movement, such as Indian and Buddhist philosophy, the 1960s counterculture, the poetry of Emerson and Whitman, European trends, and the Modernist tradition.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of several book, including A Permanent Etcetera: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Post-War America (1993), Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995) and Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0745306608
• ISBN 13: 9780745306605
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
• Herausgeber: Lee A. Robert
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar