American scream : Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation /
Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in w...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2004.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppbz4 |
| Shrnutí: | Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xxv, 295 pages) |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520939349 0520939344 1417525320 9781417525324 9786612358272 6612358270 0520240154 9780520240155 1282358278 9781282358270 |