@article{808830,
      author = {Belletto, Steven,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/808830},
      title = {The Cambridge companion to the Beats /},
      abstract = {The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth  overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary  periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary  and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the  1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its  most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,  and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to  encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit  further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a  profound effect not only on the direction of American  literature, but also on models of socio-political critique  that would become more widespread in the 1960s and beyond.  Bringing together the most influential Beat scholars  writing today, this Companion provides a comprehensive  exploration of the Beat movement, asking critical questions  about its associated figures and arguing for their  importance to postwar American letters.},
      recid = {808830},
      pages = {xxviii, 297 pages ;},
}