Understanding the Beats

by Edward Halsey Foster

Book Overview

Foster provides a survey of the four major Beat writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso. These writers were closely allied from the beginning in their careers and shared a particular vision of America, one which in turn defined much of their most celebrated work. They wrote in opposition to the materialistic, conformist culture they saw developing in postwar America, seeking through their fiction and poetry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872498786
• ISBN13: 9780872498785
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.1"