Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s - Hardcover

Beidler, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820352500 ISBN 13: 9780820352503

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 2017

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A trip through the last great reading culture

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PHILIP D. BEIDLER is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written or edited more than ten books. Beidler served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam.

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At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Beidler's coverage also extends to works of the early '70s that are clearly textual and spiritual extensions of the '60s: the Portola Institute's Last Whole Earth Catalog, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and others. An overview of reading and writing as both a product and prime mover of '60s culture precedes the main section. In his conclusion Beidler highlights the most notable efforts to document and interpret the era.

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820352500
• ISBN 13: 9780820352503
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
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