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Understanding the Beats Understanding Contemporary American Literature
author
:
Foster, Edward Halsey.
publisher
:
University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0872497984
print isbn13
:
9780872497986
ebook isbn13
:
9780585321783
language
:
English
subject
American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Beat generation.
publication date
:
1992
lcc
:
PS228.B6F67 1992eb
ddc
:
810.9/0054
subject
:
American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Beat generation.
Page i
Understanding the Beats
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor
Bernard Malamud by Jeffrey Helterman
James Dickey by Ronald Baughman
John Hawkes by Donald J. Greiner
Thomas Pynchon by Robert D. Newman
Randall Jarrell by J. A. Bryant, Jr.
Edward Albee by Matthew C. Roudan
Contemporary American Drama by William Herman
Vladimir Nabokov by Stephen Jan Parker
Joyce Carol Oates by Greg Johnson
Theodore Roethke by Walter B. Kalaidjian
Mary Lee Settle by George Garrett
Isaac Bashevis Singer by Lawrence S. Friedman
George Garrett by R. H. W. Dillard
Walker Percy by Linda Whitney Hobson
Chicano Literature by Carl R. Shirley and Paula W. Shirley
Denise Levertov by Harry Marten
Raymond Carver by Arthur M. Saltzman
Katherine Anne Porter by Darlene Harbour Unrue
Robert Bly by William V. Davis
William Stafford by Judith Kitchen
Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr
John Barth by Stan Fogel and Gordon Slethaug
Ursula K. Le Guin by Elizabeth Cummins
Contemporary American Science Fiction by Thomas Clareson
Philip Roth by Murray Baumgarten and Barbara Gottfried
Kurt Vonnegut by William Rodney Allen
Donald Barthelme by Stanley Trachtenberg
Anne Tyler by Alice Hall Petry
Joseph Heller by Sanford Pinsker
William Kennedy by J. K. Van Dover
John Irving by Edward C. Reilly
Cynthia Ozick by Lawrence S. Friedman
The Beats by Edward Halsey Foster
E. L. Doctorow by Douglas Fowler
Gary Snyder by Patrick D. Murphy
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Understanding the Beats
Edward Halsey Foster
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Copyright 1992 University of South Carolina Second Printing 1992
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Foster, Edward Halsey Understanding the Beats / Edward Halsey Foster p. cm.(Understanding contemporary American literature) Includes bioliographical references and index. ISBN 0872497984 (alk. paper) 1. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Beat generation. I. Title II. Series PS228.B6F67 1992 810.9'0054dc20 91-36122
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For Katherine Hearn Foster and John Clark Foster
Page vii
Contents
Editor's Preface
ix
Preface
xi
Chapter 1 Hipsters, Beats, and the True Frontier
1
Chapter 2 Kerouac
28
Chapter 3 Ginsberg
84
Chapter 4 Corso
128
Chapter 5 Burroughs
150
Chapter 6 After the Deluge
190
Select Bibliography
199
Index
224
Page ix
Editor's Preface
Understanding Contemporary American Literature has been planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The editor and publisher perceive a need for these volumes because much of the influential contemporary literature makes special demands. Uninitiated readers encounter difficulty in approaching works that depart from the traditional forms and techniques of prose and poetry. Literature relies on conventions, but the conventions keep evolving; new writers form their own conventionswhich in time may become familiar. Put simply, UCAL provides instruction in how to read certain contemporary writersidentifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.
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