The daybreak boys : essays on the literature of the beat generation /

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In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature-the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels through J...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stephenson, Gregory, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009, ©1990.
Edición:Paperback edition.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Beats (Persons)
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Beatniks.
Beat generation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Circular journey: Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend
  • Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": a reading
  • The Gnostic vision of William S. Burroughs
  • The Gnostic vision of William S. Burroughs
  • "The Arcadian map": notes on the poetry of Gregory Corso
  • Homeward from nowhere: notes on the novels of John Clellon Holmes
  • From the substrate: notes on the work of Michael McClure
  • Toward organized innocence: Richard Fariña's Been down so long it looks up to me
  • The "spiritual optics" of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Friendly and flowing savage: the literary legend of Neal Cassady
  • Conclusion.

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