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Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism Seeking Radical Change in America

By Lin Xiang Copyright 2020
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public culture. With a focus on essays that appeared in Dissent magazine—one of the most important journals of the New York intellectuals—from the year of its launch in 1954 to its most recent issue, as well as... Read more

1.Post-Sixties Narratives in Contemporary American Cultural Criticism

2. The New York intellectuals and Dissent magazine

3. Bob Dylan, the New York Intellectuals, and Post-Sixties Narratives

4. "The Masses:" A Sociological Trope

5. "Bohemia:" An Intellectual Trope

6. Daniel Bell: The Adversary Culture of the 1960s

7. Russell Jacoby: From Bohemia to Academia

8. From Counterculture to Cyberculture

9. Intellectuals and Their America

Conclusion

Biography

Lin Xiang is Associate Professor of English at Sichuan Normal University, China.