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Texas literary outlaws :six writers in the sixties and beyond
- 作者: Davis, Steven L.
- 出版: Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press ©2004.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xi, 511 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: In literature. , Shrake, Edwin. , American literature. , Brammer, Billy Lee. , Electronic books. , 1900-1999 , Authors, American Homes and haunts -- Texas. , Homes and haunts. , Literature. , Cartwright, Gary, 1934-2017 , Gent, Peter. , Jenkins, Dan. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Texas , Texas. , History and criticism. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , King, Larry L. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Intellectual life. , English. , Authors, American , Texas Intellectual life -- 20th century. , Texas In literature. , Cartwright, Gary, 1934-2017. , American Literature. , AmericanGeneral. , Intellectual life , Cartwright, Gary, , American literature , American literature Texas -- History and criticism. , Homes and haunts , Languages & Literatures. , Authors, American Homes and haunts.
- ISBN: 0875656803 , 9780875656809
- ISBN: 0875652859 , 9780875652856 , 0875656757
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 492-501) and index.
- 摘要: Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of six Texas writers, calling themselves the Mad Dogs, who came of age during a period of rapid social change: Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent.
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- 系統號: 005316996
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At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas’ conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these six writers—Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent—closely observed the effects of the Vietnam War; the Kennedy assassination; the rapid population shift from rural to urban environments; Lyndon Johnson’s rise to national prominence; the Civil Rights Movement; Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys; Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, the new Outlaw music scene; the birth of a Texas film industry; Texas Monthly magazine; the flowering of “Texas Chic”; and Ann Richards’ election as governor. In Texas Literary Outlaws, Steven L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change. With Davis’s eye for vibrant detail and a broad historical perspective, Texas Literary Outlaws moves easily between H. L. Hunt’s Dallas mansion and the West Texas oil patch, from the New York literary salon of Elaine’s to the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, from Dennis Hopper on a film set in Mexico to Jerry Jeff Walker crashing a party at Princeton University. The Mad Dogs were less interested in Texas’ mythic past than in the world they knew firsthand—a place of fast-growing cities and hard-edged political battles. The Mad Dogs crashed headfirst into the sixties, and their legendary excesses have often overshadowed their literary production. Davis never shies away from criticism in this no-holds-barred account, yet he also shows how the Mad Dogs’ rambunctious personae have deflected a true understanding of their deeper aims. Despite their popular image, the Mad Dogs were deadly serious as they turned their gaze on their home state, and they chronicled Texas culture with daring, wit, and sophistication.
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