A clown in a grave : complexities and tensions in the works of Gregory Corso / Michael Skau. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skau, Michael, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corso, Gregory--Criticism and interpretation.

Corso, Gregory.

Beat literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 233 p. )

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso's complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death."--BOOK JACKET. "Skau covers the complete works of Corso, one of the four major Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs) who attempted to provide an alternative to what they saw as the academic forms of literature dominating American writing through the 1940's and 1950's."--Jacket.

Contents:

The Uses of Imagination

Elegiac Feelings American

Modes of Rebellion, Modes of Expression: The American Express

The Deathmonger and the Clown in the Tomb

"The Comedy Gone Mad": Corso's Surrealism and Humor

"The Poesy That Cannot Be Destroyed": Corso's Prosody

Criticism, Reviews, and Commentary on Gregory Corso

Bibliography of Works by Gregory Corso.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-225) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-12817-0