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Sustainable Gardens of the Mind: Beat Ecopoetry and Prose in Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth" Publications.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sustainable Gardens of the Mind: Beat Ecopoetry and Prose in Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth" Publications./
Author:	Lewak, Susan Elizabeth.
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3615709
ISBN:	9781303817854

Sustainable Gardens of the Mind: Beat Ecopoetry and Prose in Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth" Publications.
Lewak, Susan Elizabeth.

Sustainable Gardens of the Mind: Beat Ecopoetry and Prose in Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth" Publications. - 191 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2014.

Stewart Brand's Whole Earth publications (The Whole Earth Catalog, The Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, The Whole Earth Review, and Whole Earth) were well known not only for showcasing alternative approaches to technology, the environment, and Eastern mysticism, but also for their tendency to juxtapose radical and seemingly contradictory subjects in an "open form" format. They have also been the focus of notable works of scholarship in the social sciences. Areas of exploration include their relationship to the development of the personal computer, the environmental movement and alternative technology, the alternative West Coast publishing industry, Space Colonies, and Nanotechnology. What is perhaps less well known is Brand's interest in the Beat poetry of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, David Meltzer, and Peter Orlovsky beginning with CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974.

ISBN: 9781303817854Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Sustainable Gardens of the Mind: Beat Ecopoetry and Prose in Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth" Publications.
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