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1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 41 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Very Short Introductions ; |
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David, Sterritt.
Very Short Introductions. Spoken word ;
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Very short introductions ; 364.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by James Conlan. |
| Summary |
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time-particularly those involving sex, race, and class-in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959). In this Very Short Introduction, David Sterritt offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beats, bringing out the similarities that connected them and also the many differences that made them a loosely knit collective rather than an organized movement. Figures in the saga include Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, and Gary Snyder. As Sterritt ranges from Greenwich Village and San Francisco to Mexico, western Europe, and North Africa, he sheds much light on how the Beats approached literature, drugs, sexuality, art, music, and religion. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Beats (Persons)
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Conlan, James.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666113952 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666113956 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14232803 |
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