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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Autore principale: Raskin, Jonah, 1942-
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppbz4
Sommario:
  • Poetickall Bomshell
  • Family Business
  • Trilling-esque Sense of "Civilization"
  • Juvinescent Savagery
  • Just like Russia
  • Ladies, We Are Going through Hell
  • Another Coast's Apple for the Eye
  • Mythological References
  • Famous Authorhood
  • This Fiction Named Allen Ginsberg
  • Best Minds.