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020			_a9781003331469
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072		7	_aDS _2bicssc
072		7	_aDSBH _2bicssc
720	1		_aHentzi, Gary _4aut
245	0	0	_aOn the Avenue of the Mystery _bThe Postwar Counterculture in Novels and Film
260			_bTaylor & Francis _c2023
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aFree-to-read _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_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.
540			_aAll rights reserved _uhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 _2bicssc
650		7	_aLiterature: history and criticism _2bicssc
653			_aLiterary Criticism, Beats, Postwar
793	0		_aDOAB Library.
856	4	0	_uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92712 _70 _zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication
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