Against the American dream : essays on Charles Bukowski /
Despite being one of the most influential, revered, and talked about American writers of the 20th century, few critics have bothered to take Charles Bukowski seriously as a writer. Praise has been muted and any analysis of his writing has either been superficial, hostile or conspicuous by its absenc...
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Santa Rosa :
Black Sparrow Press,
1994
Santa Rosa, CA : 1994 Santa Rosa : 1994 |
| Series: | Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts
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Table of Contents:
- Poetry and Class
- The Individual and the Social in Bukowski's Poetry of the '80s
- Poetry and the Working Class
- Metonymy
- Excursus: Brecht
- Work, Refusal of Work and the Job in Post Office and Factotum
- Excursus: Miller
- Politics, Class and the Plebeian Tradition
- Sex, Women and Irony
- Connections: Fante - Hamsun - Mahler
- Excursus: Gleason
- The Fascination of the (Extra)Ordinary: The Short Stories of Charles Bukowski
- Poetry and Class
- The Individual and the Social in Bukowski's Poetry of the '80s
- Poetry and the Working Class
- Metonymy
- Excursus: Brecht
- Work, Refusal of Work and the Job in Post Office and Factotum
- Excursus: Miller
- Politics, Class and the Plebeian Tradition
- Sex, Women and Irony
- Connections: Fante - Hamsun - Mahler
- Excursus: Gleason
- The Fascination of the (Extra)Ordinary: The Short Stories of Charles Bukowski
- Poetry and class
- The individual and the social in Bukowski's poetry of the '80s
- Poetry and the working class
- Metonymy
- Excursus: Brecht
- Work, refusal of work and the job in Post office and Factotum
- Excursus: Miller
- Politics, class and the plebeian tradition
- Sex, women and irony
- Connections: Fante--Hamsun--Mahler
- Excursus: Gleason
- The fascination of the (extra)ordinary: the short stories of Charles Bukowski