1st Edition
On the Avenue of the Mystery The Postwar Counterculture in Novels and Film
By Gary Hentzi
Copyright 2023
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
This 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... Read more
Biography
Gary Hentzi is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He is coeditor and coauthor of The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism and has published widely on eighteenth- and twentieth-century literature, criticism, and film.
