Charles Bukowski, outsider literature, and the beat movement / 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, explo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
31. |
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| Summary: | "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"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 214 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415807593 (hardback) 041580759X (hardback) |