The Civilized Wilderness: Backgrounds to American Romantic Literature, 1817-1860

Literature & Fiction

Foster, Edward Halsey

History & Criticism

Free Pr

Susan and Anna Warner (Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 312)

Twayne Publishers

Richard Brautigan (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Twayne Pub

William Saroyan: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction)

Foster provides a survey of the four major Beat writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso. These writers were closely allied from the beginning of their careers and shared a particular vision of America, one which in turn defined much of their most celebrated work. They wrote in opposition to the materialistic, conformist culture they saw developing in postwar America, seeking through their fiction and poetry a way out of that world. Literature, as Foster demonstrates, allowed both writer and reader to see things as they were while, at the same time, providing an entry into transcendent realities. The best-known Beat works, On the Road, "Howl," and Naked Lunch, responded directly to social and political conditions at mid-century while indicating ways to escape them. Although the Beats were widely seen as social revolutionaries by journalists, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso were always predominantly writers. As the United States moved away from the contained, conservative temperament of the postwar period, the Beats became celebrities, and, as such, were dependent for their reputations on newspapers, magazines, and television. Their fame assured that they would be read, yet they were perhaps better known for their values and their personalities than for their books. Confusing the writer with the subject of On the Road, Kerouac's early followers were surprised to find that he did not even like to drive. They failed to see that his real revolution had to do with language. Foster focuses on the problems of language and aesthetics that the Beats confronted and suggests to the reader the great range of influence their work has had on subsequent writers.

Understanding the Beats (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Univ of South Carolina Pr

University of South Carolina Press

William Saroyan

Boise State Univ.

Josiah Gregg and Lewis H. Garrard (Boise State University Western Writers Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

An experimental school of poetry & its leading proponents.

Understanding the Black Mountain Poets (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Literary

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Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews : William Bronk, Clark Coolidge, Anselm Hollo, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, L

Talisman House Pub

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