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Styles of anarchic will in Cold War American literature.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Wolmart, Gregory.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Research.
- United States--Research.
- United States.
- 0323.
- 0591.
- Penn dissertations--English.
- English--Penn dissertations.
- Local Subjects:
- Penn dissertations--English.
- English--Penn dissertations.
- 0323.
- 0591.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 75-01A(E).
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This dissertation is an examination of the intersection of American politics, identity, and counter-cultural literature after the Second World War. The literature examined herein does not fall within the duality of liberalism and radical Marxism usually ascribed to the ideologically oriented literature of the era. This author offers instead a series of investigations into literature and polemics that might instead be considered anarchistic, and which I have defined in their totality as "styles of anarchic will." These writings by authors such as Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, Paul Bowles, and Richard Wright, cover a broad range of topics that were especially relevant to the Cold War era. These topics include, but not limited to race, biopolitics, decolonization, nationalism, and globalization. Thus, this dissertation contributes to the discourse devoted to Cold War literature, as well as the tradition of American literature in which they are framed in the introduction.
- Notes:
- Thesis (Ph.D. in English) -- University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-01(E), Section: A.
- Adviser: Alan Filreis.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
- ISBN:
- 9781303398919
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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