The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation

by Gregory Stephenson

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"Who howled ... and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts-- Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

"Beat." A single-word synthesis describing this group of disaffected heroes of the subculture who used the language of the body, as well as of the soul, in their writing. These questers for a new vision, journeying through the inner and outer conflicts of their disparate, though related, lives by experimenting with new modes of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809315645

ISBN13:9780809315642

Release Date:September 1990

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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