Leopards in the temple : the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970 / Morris Dickstein.
Leopards in the temple : the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970 / Morris Dickstein.
Leopards in the temple : the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970 / Morris Dickstein.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N813.5409/27
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English
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Physical content
xii, 242 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction: Culture, Counterculture, and Postwar America -- 2. War and the Novel: From World War II to Vietnam -- 3. The New Fiction: From the Home Front to the 1950s -- 4. On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel -- 5. Apocalypse Now: A Literature of Extremes.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2002.
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Summary
Disputing the received wisdom about the culture of the Cold War, Dickstein shows why artists turned inward after the war and demonstrates how the writing of the 196Os emerged from cultural phenomena of the preceding decades, including road novels, avant-garde painting, bebop, film, psychoanalysis, and social changes that continue to affect us today...
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Leopards in the temple : the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970 / Morris Dickstein.
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"Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 were originally published in The Cambridge history of American literature, volume 7, 1940-1990, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.
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N813.5409/27
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0674006046
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813.5409
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991015869039702626
