Capturing the beat moment : cultural politics and the poetics of presence /

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This book investigates the cultural construction of immediacy in Beat writing. It places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and outlines the effects of gender and race on Beat writing in the postwar years. Mortenson a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mortenson, Erik, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Beats (Persons)
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Beatniks.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Beat generation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rethinking the beats
  • Being present: authenticity in postwar America
  • The visionary state: uniting past, present, and future
  • Immanence and transcendence: Reich, orgasm, and the body
  • Recording the moment: the role of the photograph in beat representation
  • Getting together: heterotopia and the moment as a social site
  • Conclusion: making the most of the moment.

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