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Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement - Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 1st edition
Paul Clements
Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement - Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 1st edition
Paul Clements
This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski?s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers Bukowski?s apolitical, gendered, and working-class stance to understand how the writer represents reality and is represented with regards to counter-cultural literature. In addition, Clements provides a broader socio-cultural focus that evaluates counterculture in relation to the American beat movement and mythology, highlighting the male cool anti-hero. The cultural practices and discourses utilized to situate Bukowski include the individual and society, outsiderdom, cult celebrity, fan embodiment, and disneyfication, providing a greater understanding of the beat generation and counterculture literature.
228 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 6, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780415807593 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 214 |
Dimensions | 230 × 157 × 21 mm · 432 g |
Language | English |
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