The performing self : compositions and decompositions in the languages of contemporary life /
Richard Poirier
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1971.
- xv, 203 p.
A literature of law and order.--The politics of self-parody.--The literature of waste: Eliot, Joyce, and others.--What is English studies, and if you know what that is, what is English literature?--The performing self.--Learning from the Beatles.--The war against the young: its beginnings.--Rock of ages.--Escape to the future
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American literature--20th century English literature--20th century