Out of the Sixties - Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation

Klappentext This study looks at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War. Zusammenfassung This study! first published in 1994! takes a broad! yet personal! look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War; filmmaker George Lucas! songwriter Bruce Springsteen! playwright Sam Shepard! journalist Michael Herr! writers Ann Beattie! Alice Walker! Ethan Mordden! Sue Miller! and poets Gregory Orr! and Louise Gluck. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: the form of story; Part I. Nostalgia: 1. George Lucas; 2. Bruce Springsteen; Part II. Celebrity: 3. Sam Shepard; 4. Ann Beattie; Part III. Family Romance: 5. Sue Miller; 6. Ethan Mordden; 7. Alice Walker; Part IV. Survival: 8. Gregory Orr; 9. Louise Glück; 10. Michael Herr; Conclusion: people in history; Works read and cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Wyatt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.1993
• EAN: 9780521441513
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44151-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous