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The Cambridge Companion to the Beats
Steven Belletto
出版Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-13
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN11071844529781107184459
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NYXuDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a profound effect not only on the direction of American literature, but also on models of socio-political critique that would become more widespread in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together the most influential Beat scholars writing today, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the Beat movement, asking critical questions about its associated figures and arguing for their importance to postwar American letters.