02753namaa2200373uu 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016006001900033007001500052008004100067020001800108020001800126020001800144040001700162041000800179042000700187072001500194072001700209720002200226245008000248260002700328300002200355336002600377337002600403338003600429506005100465520154000516540006302056546001202119650004702131650004602178653003902224856011602263doab92712oapen20260305123948.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan221015s2023    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9781003331469  a9781032363417  a9781032363424  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aDS2bicssc 7aDSBH2bicssc1 aHentzi, Gary4aut00aOn the Avenue of the MysterybThe Postwar Counterculture in Novels and Film  bTaylor & Francisc2023  a1 online resource  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aThis volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three decades straddling the millennium (1985-2012). The comparison of these novels (by Ken Kesey, Paul Bowles, Carson McCullers, Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin, Alexander Trocchi, William Burroughs, and Peter Matthiessen) with their film adaptations offers the opportunity for a historical reassessment not only of the novels themselves but also of the global counterculture of the years 1965-75, which they prefigure in a variety of ways. Appearing more than a decade after the waning of the counterculture and in some cases as much as fifty years after the novels on which they are based, the films display significant revisions and omissions prompted by the historical and cultural changes of the intervening years. Whereas these changes are nowadays often interpreted in purely political terms, this book argues that the religious theme of mystery and its decline is central to the novels and films and is a key feature of the period of cultural transformation that they bookend. At once a work of literary criticism, film studies, and cultural history, this text has the potential to reach both an academic audience and the broader readership that has long existed for these novels as well as the even broader one interested in reappraising the period of the global counterculture-among the most important of the influences that have shaped the contemporary world.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 20002bicssc 7aLiterature: history and criticism2bicssc  aLiterary Criticism, Beats, Postwar40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/9271270zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication