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

ISBN-13: 9781032173412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str.

Lin Xiang

Opis

With a focus on essays in Dissent magazine, as well books on American culture by Daniel Bell, and Russell Jacoby, 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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