| 期刊全稱 | Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture | | 影響因子2023 | Guy Stevenson | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/159/158335/158335.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | The first ever study of anti-humanism in America‘s 1950s and 60s literary counterculture.A major contribution to the study of literary modernist legacies after 1945.Timely context for current debates | | 圖書封面 |  | | 影響因子 | .This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American?literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped?too in opposite ideas – ideas that doubted human perfectibility, spurned the?majority for a spiritually elect few, and had their roots in earlier politically?reactionary avant-gardes. Through case studies of icons in the?counterculture – the controversial sexual revolutionary Henry Miller, Beat Generation writers?Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs and self-proclaimed?‘philosopher of hip’, Norman Mailer – Guy Stevenson explores a set of paradoxes?at its centre: between romantic optimism and modernist pessimism; between brutal rhetoric and emancipatory desires; and between social?egalitarianism and spiritual elitism. Such paradoxes, Stevenson argues, help?explain the cultural and political worldsthese writers shaped –?in their time and beyond.. | | Pindex | Book 2020 |
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