“...A HIDEOUS MONSTER”: SOCIAL REPRESSION AND REBELLION IN GREGORY CORSO’S “THE AMERICAN WAY”
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- abstract
- The writing of Gregory Corso (1930-2001) has received little critical attention when compared to that of his contemporaries. This thesis investigates the cause of that discrepancy through Corso’s poem “The American Way”. In reading “The American Way”, we discover Corso’s worldview and goals via a primarily New Historicist methodology. The first section of this thesis, “A Factory of Sludge: The Inhibiting Systems of the American Way”, explores the poem’s depiction of a corrupt national system. The thesis’s second section, “Battle Plans: Imagined and Engineered Weapons Against the American Way” explains Corso’s in-poem proposals to revive the United States. Finally, the third section, “Corso and the Way: How and Why the Poet Disdains 20th Century America”, foregrounds these abstract concepts in evidence from the author’s life and historical context.
- subject
- 20th Century American
- Beat
- Corso
- Gregory Corso
- Modern Poetry
- Poetry
- contributor
- Alford, Lucy (committee chair)
- Catanzano, Amy (committee member)
- date
- 2022-05-24T08:36:16Z (accessioned)
- 2022-05-24T08:36:16Z (available)
- 2022 (issued)
- degree
- English (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/100779 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- “...A HIDEOUS MONSTER”: SOCIAL REPRESSION AND REBELLION IN GREGORY CORSO’S “THE AMERICAN WAY”
- type
- Thesis