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UNINA9910552775203321 |
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Autore |
Orr Stanley <1967-> |
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / / Stanley Orr |
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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0-8142-8067-6 |
0-8142-7129-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 248 p. ) |
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Film noir - United States - History and criticism |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Noir fiction, American - History and criticism |
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index. |
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The continental operations of Dashiell Hammett -- Raymond Chandler's semi-tropical romance -- Late romantic adventure and film noir -- Veterans of noir: rewriting the good war with Chester Himes, Dorothy B. Hughes, and John Okada -- Noir and the postmodern novel -- To look at him or read him: the confidence man in postmodernist film noir -- Conclusion. Connected guys: the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir. |
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UNINA9910484735003321 |
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Autore |
Stevenson Guy |
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Anti-Humanism in the Counterculture / / by Guy Stevenson |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VII, 223 p.) |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
America - Literatures |
Ethnology - America |
Culture |
Philosophy of mind |
Self |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
North American Literature |
American Culture |
Philosophy of the Self |
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1. Introduction: Romanticism, Humanism and the Counterculture -- 2. Henry Miller and The Beats: An Anti-Humanist Precedent -- 3. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and their Transcendentalist Gloom -- 4. William Burroughs' Immodest Proposal -- 5. The Philosophy of Hip: Norman Mailer's 'Spiritual Existentialism' -- 6. Conclusion: Counterculture Then and Now. |
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This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture. Associated nostalgically with freedom of expression, romanticism, humanist ideals and progressive politics, the period was steeped too in opposite ideas - ideas that doubted human perfectibility, spurned the majority for a spiritually elect few, and had |
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their roots in earlier politically reactionary avant-gardes. Through case studies of iconic figures in the counterculture - the sexual revolutionary Henry Miller, Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs and self-proclaimed 'philosopher of hip', Norman Mailer - Guy Stevenson explores a set of paradoxes at its center. Between a Walt Whitman-like optimism and pessimistic modernist intuitions; between brutal rhetoric and emancipatory desires; and between social egalitarianism and spiritual elitism. Such paradoxes, he argues, are vital to an understanding of the cultural and political worlds these writers helped shape - in their time and beyond. |
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