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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Phillips, Rod. "‘Forest Beatniks’ and ‘Urban Thoreaus’: Beat Literature and Nature," Program in American Studies, Michigan State University, May 1995.
Arguing that one of the central goals of many members of the 1950s Beat Movement was to forge a reconnection with the natural world, this study examines the role of nature and ecology in the works of four writers of the period: Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure. Further, this dissertation examines how Buddhist, Native American, and other bio-centric beliefs held by many within the Beat circle may have provided an important step towards the rise in ecological consciousness witnessed by the 1960s and ‘70s, as well as an important source for the current Deep Ecology perspective.
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