Landscapes of Language: Richard Brautigan's Fiction: the Achievement and Context of Richard Brautigan's Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 1847602436
- ISBN-13
- 9781847602435
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-01
- Publisher
- Humanities-Ebooks
- Author
- John Tanner
Description
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural celebrity, a writer that the would-be hip just had to read. The problem was that his fame did not rest on the considerable literary virtues of his work but, to a great extent, on a hippie image exemplified by the photograph of him on the cover of his breakthrough novel, Trout Fishing in America. When nobody wanted tie-dye shirts and gurus any more, they didn’t want Brautigan either. Academics have followed the public’s lead: this is the first book-length study of Brautigan in English for 30 years. Its purpose is to reclaim Brautigan’s reputation. Dr. John Tanner analyses Brautigan’s fiction against the background of the cultural and literary upheavals from which it emerged and demonstrates that Brautigan is no mere Sixties curio but an innovative and vibrant American voice ignored for far too long.
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