"LITERARY CRITICISM American General." . . "American literature History and criticism 20th century." . . "Beatgeneration." . . "Littérature américaine 1945-1970 Histoire et critique." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Beat generation." . . "Beat Generation." . "Beat generation" . "Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique." . . "American literature." . . "American literature" . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "Capturing the beat moment : cultural politics and the poetics of presence" . . . . . . "Capturing the beat moment cultural politics and the poetics of presence"@en . "Capturing the beat moment cultural politics and the poetics of presence" . "This book investigates the cultural construction of immediacy in Beat writing. It places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and outlines the effects of gender and race on Beat writing in the postwar years. Mortenson argues that Beat writers focused on action, desire, and spontaneity to establish an authentic connection to the world around them. He challenges the stereotype of the Beats as simply timeless hipsters by demonstrating their importance to our understanding of the changes occurring in America in the middle of the twentieth century.--[book cover]."@en . "This book investigates the cultural construction of immediacy in Beat writing. It places an expanded canon of Beat writers in an early postmodern context that highlights their importance in American poetics and outlines the effects of gender and race on Beat writing in the postwar years. Mortenson argues that Beat writers focused on action, desire, and spontaneity to establish an authentic connection to the world around them. He challenges the stereotype of the Beats as simply timeless hipsters by demonstrating their importance to our understanding of the changes occurring in America in the middle of the twentieth century.--[book cover]." . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . "Electronic books." . . . . "American literature 20th century History and criticism." . .