Author: Raymond Michael OldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond 'The Waste Land'
Author: Raymond Michael OldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond the waste Land, -a study of the American novel in the nineteen-sixties
Author: Raymond M. OldermanBeyond the Waste Land
Author: Raymond M. OldermanPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300015430
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Discusses the novels of Ken Kesey, Stanley Elkin, John Barth, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Peter S. Beagle.
American Culture in the 1960s
Author: Sharon MonteithPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades. It provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960s America - music and performance; film and television; fiction and poetry; art and photography - as well as influential texts, trends and figures of the decade: from Norman Mailer to Susan Sontag; from Muhammad Ali's anti-war protests to Tom Lehrer's stand-up comedy; from Bob Dylan to Rachel Carson; and from Pop Art to photojournalism. A chapter on new social movements demonstrates that a current of conservatism runs through even the most revolutionary movements of the 1960s and the book as a whole looks to the West and especially to the South in the making of the sixties as myth and as history.
Research Guide to American Literature
Author: John CusatisPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438134053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Covers American literature during the postwar period.
Lawrence Durrell
Author: Julius Rowan RaperPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826209825
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Lawrence Durrell excelled in a great variety of genres: poetry, drama, travel books, humorous writings, translations, critical essays, philosophical essays, character sketches, and, above all, genre- and culture-transforming experimental novels. In keeping with Durrell's multifaceted career and the centrality of his experiments, the essays in this collection use a variety of literary approaches to the diversity of Durrell's contributions to literature, illuminating four major dimensions of Durrell's writing.
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438114036
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A collection of essays on Nathanael West's novel, Miss Lonelyhearts, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Summer of Love
Author: Christoph GrunenbergPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853239192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Though more than a generation has passed since the revolutionary fervor of the Summer of Love of 1967, the 1960s in many ways seem with us still. From recurring debates over the war in Vietnam to the perpetually appealing music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone to the concern about youth drug use, the legacy of the 1960s is ubiquitous in contemporary life. The Summer of Love brings together an impressive group of historians, artists, and cultural critics to present a rich and varied interpretation of this seminal decade and its continuing influence on politics, society, and culture. The Summer of Love, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, pays particular attention to the wildly creative psychedelic art of the era. Perceptive essays on psychedelic comics, graphic design and typography, light shows, and film successfully rescue psychedelic art from the fog of nostalgia and unjust critical neglect. Distinguished contributors also explore the role of 1960s fashion and architecture, and they consider anew the central influence of hallucinogenic drugs on the art of the era. Running throughout the essays are the elements of epochal change—from sexual liberation to student revolutions—that still form the backdrop of our collective consciousness of the 1960s. An incisive collection of writings on all aspects of 1960s art and culture, tempered by time and critical distance, The Summer of Love will be indispensable for those who wish they had been there—or for those who were, but can't remember it.
Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn
Author: Timothy S. MillerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031534255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Sanity Plea
Author: Lawrence R. BroerPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817307524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut’s works from Player Piano to Hocus Pocus, taking a decisively new approach to the work of one of America’s most important, yet often misinterpreted writers. A compelling and original analysis, Sanity Plea, explores how Vonnegut incorporates his personal experiences into an art that is not defeatist, but rather creatively therapeutic and life-affirming.