Beats, The [electronic resource] : A Very Short Introduction
David Sterritt2021
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation
revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language
and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society.
They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their
time-particularly those involving sex, race, and class-in such provocative works
as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), and
William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959).
In this Very Short Introduction , David Sterritt offers a concise overview of
the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beats, bringing out the
similarities that connected them and also the many differences that made them a
loosely knit collective rather than an organized movement.
Figures in the saga include Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, and Gary Snyder. As Sterritt ranges from
Greenwich Village and San Fr...
Main title:
Beats, The [electronic resource] : A Very Short Introduction / David Sterritt
Author:
David Sterritt, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Tantor Audio, 2021
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (101 MB, 03:41:48 H)
Performers:
Narrator: James Conlan
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781666113952
Language:
English
BRN:
436880
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