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Scriptures for a generation, what we were reading in the '60s, Philip D. Beidler

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Scriptures for a generation, what we were reading in the '60s, Philip D. Beidler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Scriptures for a generation

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

29877004

Responsibility statement

Philip D. Beidler

Sub title

what we were reading in the '60s

Summary

At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Beidler's coverage also extends to works of the early '70s that are clearly textual and spiritual extensions of the '60s: the Portola Institute's Last Whole Earth Catalog, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and others. An overview of reading and writing as both a product and prime mover of '60s culture precedes the main section. In his conclusion Beidler highlights the most notable efforts to document and interpret the era

Table Of Contents

Mythologizing the '60s -- '60s readers and '60s texts -- '60s texts and '60s writers -- Postscripts and summations

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