Ann Charters

Broschiertes Buch

The Portable Beat Reader

Beschreibung

Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." This book collects the significant writings of the fellow members of the Beat Generation. In poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters.

Autor

Ann Charters, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, Kerouac, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, Scattered Poems. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including The Portable Beat Reader, The Portable Sixties Reader, Beat Down to Your Soul, The Portable Jack Kerouac Reader, and two volumes of Kerouac’s Selected Letters.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin UK
• Seitenzahl: 690
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780142437537
• ISBN-10: 0142437530
• Artikelnr.: 21372835