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| Author | : Gregory Stephenson |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2009-06-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 080938647X |
In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels through Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend,following Kerouac’s quests for identity, community, and spiritual knowledge. He examines Allen Ginsberg’s use of transcendence in “Howl,” discovers the Gnostic vision in William S. Burroughs’s fiction, and studies the mythic, visionary power of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry. Stephenson also provides detailed examinations of the writing of lesser-known Beat authors: John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Richard Fariña, and Michael McClure. He explores the myth and the mystery of the literary legend of Neal Cassady. The book concludes with a look at the common traits of the Beat writers—their use of primitivism, shamanism, myth and magic, spontaneity, and improvisation, all of which led them to a new idiom of consciousness and to the expansion of the parameters of American literature.
| Author | : Rocco Dormarunno |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 0595204465 |
19th Century New York's most dangerous neighborhood comes back to life. The Five Points neighborhood, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, was home to the world's most dangerous criminals and impoverished immigrants. These two gritty stories ensure that this part of New York's history will not be forgotten.
| Author | : Herbert Asbury |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1928 |
| Genre | : Crime |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Shirley A. Martin |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2015-07-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1504924576 |
Bloodline Gypsy: Jook and Gypsies Vol. 1 Rocking five-star ratings on Amazon and Barnes and Noble!!! *****Paranormal Romance Guild 5-star review and nominated for the 2014 Readers Choice Award. *****Mysterious. Fascinating. Infiltrating I want more, much more!!!! Lesli E. Houston Amazon Review *****This is nothing like anything I have experienced! Prepare for an original genre Barnes & Noble review *****Great book, thrilling and sexy! WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE COMING OUT?!?!? Melissa Amazon review *****I read voraciously and Shirleys book is the most exciting book I have read in quite some time. Bob Fuller Amazon review ****This is a good solid horror story; spooky atmospheric and at times brutally graphic. Tskoyal GoodReads review Bengalo Moon: Jook and Gypsies Vol. 2 Finally a sequel that delivers! Belinda Rainwater Literary agent and literary awards judge Venture into the darkness beyond the campfires in this 21st century saga where medieval folklore becomes terrifying reality Susannah Henika, an American-born poshrat (half-blood gypsy), is the descendant of the ancient strain of magic that forged werewolves into the world. Unknown to the teenager, two species of werewolves have evolved from the curse her distant ancestor Bisnik Zygan cast into the world. The Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf) and the Jook are mortal enemies. Both species are born with an innate ability to track the Zygan lineage. The Jook must mate with the bloodline of their origin to preserve their species and humanity from the murderous Ruv Bengalo, who destroy Zygan progeny with the intent to drive the Jook into extinction. The Jook attempt to whisk Susannah to safety as she is discovered by the Ruv Bengalo In the vast, open lands of the United States the devilish wolves have been organizing an army, and our company escaping with their lives has become a perilous challenge
| Author | : George Washington Walling |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 622 |
| Release | : 1887 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David M. Fine |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780826316219 |
"In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults." And with the landscape came the stories, as Paul Skenazy and David Fine note in their introduction to this new anthology of essays. San Francisco is as much a place in the mind as on the map; if the terrain set the stage for the stories, the stories have helped remake our perceptions of the space. These twelve essays explore the relationship between place and prose--between San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.
| Author | : C.S. O'Cinneide |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2020-02-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459744853 |
Candace Starr considers herself retired from the world of professional hits since she got out of prison. That’s until a society maven wants her daughter’s boyfriend removed from their lives permanently. When he shows up dead, Candace has to help the cops catch the killer, even as she's a prime suspect.
| Author | : Wallace Edwards |
| Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2020-09-12 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : |
★★★ Is true better than fiction? ★★★ The subject of a classic history by Herbert Asbury and an Academy Award-nominated film by Martin Scorsese, the gangs of The Five Points in New York have become the stuff of legend. But how much is legend and how much is fact? In this short book, we examine the original gangs of the Five Points in New York and see how accurate the film was (spoiler alert: not very) and what Asbury may have gotten wrong in his original research on this era. From the Bowery Boys to the Dead Rabbits, we look at the gangs that operated not just in the Five Points, but also those who wanted a piece of the action there and engaged in gang wars that would leave even modern thugs quivering in their boots!
| Author | : Carrie Hagen |
| Publisher | : ABRAMS |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2011-08-18 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 159020896X |
This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer). In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia. A ransom note arrived three days later, demanding twenty thousand dollars for the boy’s return. The city was about to host the America’s Centennial celebration, and the mass panic surrounding the Charley Ross case plunged the nation into hysteria. The desperate search led the police to inspect every building in Philadelphia, set up saloon surveillance in New York’s notorious slums, and begin a national manhunt. With white-knuckle suspense and historical detail, Hagen vividly captures the dark side of an earlier America. Her brilliant portrayal of its criminals, detectives, politicians, spiritualists, and ordinary families will stay with the reader long after the final page. “Hagen skillfully narrates a saga that transcends one kidnapping, a saga tied up with the World’s Fair that was about to open in Philadelphia.” —Kirkus Reviews “As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair for Devil in the White City, Hagen chronicles a tragically more relevant 19th-century story.” —Michael Capuzzo, author of The Murder Room
| Author | : Leerom Medovoi |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2005-11-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0822387298 |
Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean—these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the “free world” required emancipatory figures who could represent America’s geopolitical claims. Medovoi argues that the “bad boy” became a guarantor of the country’s anti-authoritarian, democratic self-image: a kindred spirit to the freedom-seeking nations of the rapidly decolonizing third world and a counterpoint to the repressive conformity attributed to both the Soviet Union abroad and America’s burgeoning suburbs at home. Alongside the young rebel, the contemporary concept of identity emerged in the 1950s. It was in that decade that “identity” was first used to define collective selves in the politicized manner that is recognizable today: in terms such as “national identity” and “racial identity.” Medovoi traces the rapid absorption of identity themes across many facets of postwar American culture, including beat literature, the young adult novel, the Hollywood teen film, early rock ‘n’ roll, black drama, and “bad girl” narratives. He demonstrates that youth culture especially began to exhibit telltale motifs of teen, racial, sexual, gender, and generational revolt that would burst into political prominence during the ensuing decades, bequeathing to the progressive wing of contemporary American political culture a potent but ambiguous legacy of identity politics.
