Against The American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski.
by [Bukowski, Charles] Harrison, Russell
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- ISBN 13
- 9780876859605
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Santa Rosa ::: Black Sparrow Press,,, 1994... First Trade Edition. A Fine unread copy in Acetate dust jacket. This is the first book-length critical and scholarly assessment of Bukowski's work and takes a close look at his poetry and fiction. Although Harrison's writings on Bukowski's poetry and fiction are scholarly, they are hardly unpartisan, adopting an almost strident tone in arguments that the late poet's work remains unjustly unappreciated. Harrison argues consistently if not always convincingly, Bukowski has been ignored by academics and anthologists in part because he doesn't fit neatly into a genre and in part because his subject is the working class. Harrison presents Bukowski as a ``social lyricist'' and ``a proletarian poet'' who saw life in America as deadening, routinized, and whose achievement was to make poetry out of his refusal to buy into the American Dream. Harrison is at his most helpful when tracing the literary and popular influences in Bukowski's work, from the Surrealists and Bertold Brecht to Henry Miller and Jackie Gleason. Harrison quotes extensively from Bukowski's writings and analyzes their message in hopes of gaining a sympathetic and wider audience for a poet who defies convention.
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- Gregor Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- Against The American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski.
- Author
- [Bukowski, Charles] Harrison, Russell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0876859600
- ISBN 13
- 9780876859605
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press,,
- Place of Publication
- Santa Rosa ::
- Date Published
- 1994..
- Keywords
- Charles Bukowski
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- Charles Bukowski;
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