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Powers of possibility : experimental American writing since the 1960s /

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"In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Lukacs discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present 'concrete potentialities' of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American exper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houen, Alex
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Literature, Experimental > United States > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Experimentelle Literatur.
USA.
Geschichte 1960-2010.
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 'Back! back! back! central mind machine Pentagon...': Allen Ginsberg and the Vietnam War
  • 'This black world of purest possibility': LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
  • Writing outer space for 'potential America': William S. Burroughs
  • Novel biopolitics: Kathy Acker and Michel Foucault
  • Making a person possible: Lyn Hejinian and language poetry
  • Conclusion: potentialism and practical imagination.