The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. In this new study, A. Robert Lee aims to explore those counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Specifically, Lee analyses three recent literary branches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider"...
The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bra...
Password. Remember children's games? Or spy films? Or the whispers of code? Add in your computer log-in, bank pin, email. Encryption everywhere. Languages private and public. What's locked? What's the key? This latest verse collection by A. Robert Lee takes soundings.
Password. Remember children's games? Or spy films? Or the whispers of code? Add in your computer log-in, bank pin, email. Encryption everywhere. Langu...