The Daybreak Boys

Author : Gregory Stephenson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080938647X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daybreak Boys written by Gregory Stephenson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels through Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend,following Kerouac’s quests for identity, community, and spiritual knowledge. He examines Allen Ginsberg’s use of transcendence in “Howl,” discovers the Gnostic vision in William S. Burroughs’s fiction, and studies the mythic, visionary power of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry. Stephenson also provides detailed examinations of the writing of lesser-known Beat authors: John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Richard Fariña, and Michael McClure. He explores the myth and the mystery of the literary legend of Neal Cassady. The book concludes with a look at the common traits of the Beat writers—their use of primitivism, shamanism, myth and magic, spontaneity, and improvisation, all of which led them to a new idiom of consciousness and to the expansion of the parameters of American literature.

Author : Stuart Brooke Jackman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daybreak Boys written by Stuart Brooke Jackman and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gangs of New York written by Herbert Asbury and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Washington Walling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of a New York Chief of Police written by George Washington Walling and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leerom Medovoi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387298
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels written by Leerom Medovoi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean—these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the “free world” required emancipatory figures who could represent America’s geopolitical claims. Medovoi argues that the “bad boy” became a guarantor of the country’s anti-authoritarian, democratic self-image: a kindred spirit to the freedom-seeking nations of the rapidly decolonizing third world and a counterpoint to the repressive conformity attributed to both the Soviet Union abroad and America’s burgeoning suburbs at home. Alongside the young rebel, the contemporary concept of identity emerged in the 1950s. It was in that decade that “identity” was first used to define collective selves in the politicized manner that is recognizable today: in terms such as “national identity” and “racial identity.” Medovoi traces the rapid absorption of identity themes across many facets of postwar American culture, including beat literature, the young adult novel, the Hollywood teen film, early rock ‘n’ roll, black drama, and “bad girl” narratives. He demonstrates that youth culture especially began to exhibit telltale motifs of teen, racial, sexual, gender, and generational revolt that would burst into political prominence during the ensuing decades, bequeathing to the progressive wing of contemporary American political culture a potent but ambiguous legacy of identity politics.

Author : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher : Athens : Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American and British Poetry: 1979-1990 written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Athens : Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes approximately 800 British and American poets, past and present, with criticisms drawn from more than 160 journals and 300 books

Author : MacKinlay Kantor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698188225
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andersonville written by MacKinlay Kantor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The greatest of our Civil War novels."—The New York Times The 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.

Author : Barbara Ewing
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0748123598
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Circus Of Ghosts written by Barbara Ewing and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others - but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London memories fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerrotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results.

Author : Edward Crapsey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368168894
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nether Side of New York written by Edward Crapsey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Author : Jordana Moore Saggese
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383346
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Basquiat written by Jordana Moore Saggese and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositions—collages of text and gestural painting across a variety of media—quickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides a new approach to understanding the range and impact of this artist’s practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and ideological debates of the late twentieth century, including the instability of identity, the role of appropriation, and the boundaries of expressionism. Jordana Moore Saggese argues that Basquiat, once known as “the black Picasso,” probes not only the boundaries of blackness but also the boundaries of American art. Weaving together the artist’s interests in painting, writing, and music, this groundbreaking book expands the parameters of aesthetic discourse to consider the parallels Basquiat found among these disciplines in his exploration of the production of meaning. Most important, Reading Basquiat traces the ways in which Basquiat constructed large parts of his identity—as a black man, as a musician, as a painter, and as a writer—via the manipulation of texts in his own library.