Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground - From Obscurity to Literary Icon

Zusatztext "As far as scholarship is concerned, it's the best, most needed, and important book ever written and published on Hank's writing and career. I did not realize that such a crazy patchwork of rumor and inaccurate speculation constituted the current state of Bukowski 'scholarship.' Debritto corrects, or questions, much of this rumor and misinformation and builds an invaluable foundation for further academic inquiry. I think sound future Bukowski scholarship will now be possible only because this book. Debritto has done a masterful job." - John Martin, Publisher of Black Sparrow Press "Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground charts how Bukowski became established through his indefatigable submissions and frequent appearances in 'little magazines', which formed an efficient network spreading poetry to a tiny network of poetry enthusiasts Debritto's study is a rarity: a literary analysis that whets your appetite to devour the poems and stories he discusses." - Spiked Informationen zum Autor Abel Debritto is a Fulbright Scholar Fellow at Brown University, USA. Klappentext This critical study of the literary magazines! underground newspapers! and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career! draws on archives! privately held unpublished Bukowski work! and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Zusammenfassung This critical study of the literary magazines! underground newspapers! and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career! draws on archives! privately held unpublished Bukowski work! and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Acknowledgments List of Permissions Preface for the King; Michael Basinski Epigraph Introduction 1 'Who's Big in the Littles' 2 The Insider Within 3 A Towering Giant with Small Feet 4 Stealing the Limelight 5 Curtain Calls Appendix Timeline Works Cited...

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• Authors: A Debritto, A. Debritto, Abel Debritto
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349465767
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46576-7
• No. of pages: 239
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Poetry, Fiction, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, icon;interview;press