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Liminality and (S0(BCommunitas(S1(B in the Beat Generation (New edition.)

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This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat Generation based on Victor Turner's anthropological studies.

Signs of liminality and "communitas" appear in works by Jack Kerouac, William S.

Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats formed anti-structure in their liminal stage and recorded this in their liminoid literature.

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Peter Lang
3631727976 / 9783631727973
eBook (EPUB)
29/12/2017
Germany
English
316 pages
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