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The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon - the product of a postwar-youth culture with roots in the cities of New York and San Francisco. This study examines another side of the Beat Movement: its strong desire for a reconnection with nature. Although each took a different path in attaining this goal, the writers considered here - Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure - sought a new and closer connection to the natural world. These four writers, along with many of their counterparts in the Beat era, provided a crucial spark that helped to ignite the environmental movement of the 1970s and provided the foundation for the development of the current «Deep Ecology» worldview.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: "Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus"
• Subtitle: Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure
• Author: Rod Phillips
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 169
• EAN: 9780820441597
• ISBN: 9780820441597
• ID: 10022242
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 238 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. May 2000

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