Countercultural movements at the dawn of the “long sixties” in a transatlantic context
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2024-2-116-133
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the countercultural movements in the United States and Great Britain in the second half of the 1950s, when the nonconformist movements were being developed within their national borders. Applying the comparative method to compare the American “beat generation” and the British “angry young men” and using the discourse analysis to identify the repertoires of the meanings embedded in their works –the poem “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg and the play “Look Back in Anger” by John Osborne – the author determines the nonconformist characteristics inherent both to each separate literary movement and to the entire generation of the “long sixties”. The detection of common characteristic features made it possible for the author to test the hypothesis about the similarities between the two movements, and those similarities allowed for the movements’ mutual cultural influence in the 1960s.
About the Author
A. S. Rogovtseva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksandra S. Rogovtseva, postgraduate student
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Rogovtseva A.S. Countercultural movements at the dawn of the “long sixties” in a transatlantic context. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2024;(2):116-133. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2024-2-116-133
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