The Cambridge companion to the Beats / edited by Steven Belletto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belletto, Steven, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beats (Persons)--History and criticism.

Beats (Persons).

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Mar 2017).

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ISBN:

9781316877067

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