Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a
variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has …

This essay explores the formative but largely unacknowledged role played by women in
shaping the material and intellectual cultural productions of the mimeograph revolution in …

Elegiac poems by Australian late modernist poet Martin Johnston (1947–90) expose key
anxieties about lyric poetry after American mid-century late modernism. Johnston, like other …

The history of mid-20 th century American poetry should be understood alongside a history
of personal recording media. Between the end of WWII and the late 1970s, three …

Adolescent girls often experience a decline in their self-esteem as they begin to realize their
second-class cultural status on the road to adulthood. Studies have demonstrated that …

My dissertation takes a speculative cue from the reception of 1970s New York punk, which is
typically treated as both rule–the symbolic site of origin–and exception–a protean moment …

In this article I consider the impact of New York school poetry and New York punk rock on
the Los Angeles literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s. I explore a distinct group of poets …

Abstract Patti Smith and her 2010 National Book Award-winning Just Kids offers an
autobiographical account of the artist's life with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe …

Patti Smith Group's (PSG) music occupies a puzzling spot in punk history, given their
oscillation between stylistic elements common to rock and roll and a range of ideas inherited …

Ao longo desta dissertação pretende-se explorar a relação dinâmica entre a poeta Patti
Smith, no seu papel de produtora cultural e leitora pertencente a uma comunidade …