Steven Belletto
Biographic Data
| ID | 841857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Belletto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Belletto |
| SIGNATURE | BELLETTO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac is among the most important and influential writers to emerge from mid-twentieth century America. Founder of the Beat Generation literary movement, Kerouac's most famous novel, On the Road, was known as the bible of this generation, and inspired untold people to question the rigid social and cultural expectations of 1950s America. And yet despite its undeniable influence, On the Road is only a small piece of Kerouac's literary achiev…
Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
The Beat Generation Meets the Hungry Generation: U.S.—Calcutta Networks and the 1960s “Revolt of the Personal”
This essay explores the relationship between the U.S.-based Beat literary movement and the Hungry Generation literary movement centered in and around Calcutta, India, in the early 1960s. It discusses a trip Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky took to India in 1962, where they met writers associated with the Hungry Generation. It further explains how Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books in San Francisco, was inspired to start a new lite…
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that we…
American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960
The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel
From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950-1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally by white, male Americans who fought in the war, reported on the war, or had some other ties to the US military. Work of this phase renders the Korean War in terms of t…
Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship; A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government; Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War…
Book Review| December 01 2009 Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship; A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government; Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror Steven Belletto Steven Belletto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 844–847. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-052 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share …
The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security State
This essay explores what the author terms the "game theory narrative," a cultural narrative that gained prominence in American culture in the early years of the Cold War. For many Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s, game theory was a way for scientists, in collusion with the US government, to prevent nuclear exchange by conceptualizing the Cold War as a game, and by playing this game according to specific rational strategies. The first p…
The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security State
This essay explores what the author terms the "game theory narrative," a cultural narrative that gained prominence in American culture in the early years of the Cold War. For many Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s, game theory was a way for scientists, in collusion with the US government, to prevent nuclear exchange by conceptualizing the Cold War as a game, and by playing this game according to specific rational strategies. The first p…
The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel
From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950-1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally by white, male Americans who fought in the war, reported on the war, or had some other ties to the US military. Work of this phase renders the Korean War in terms of t…
Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship; A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government; Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War…
Book Review| December 01 2009 Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship; A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government; Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror Steven Belletto Steven Belletto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 844–847. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-052 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share …
The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security State
This essay explores what the author terms the "game theory narrative," a cultural narrative that gained prominence in American culture in the early years of the Cold War. For many Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s, game theory was a way for scientists, in collusion with the US government, to prevent nuclear exchange by conceptualizing the Cold War as a game, and by playing this game according to specific rational strategies. The first p…
The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel
From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950-1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally by white, male Americans who fought in the war, reported on the war, or had some other ties to the US military. Work of this phase renders the Korean War in terms of t…
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that we…
American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960
Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
The Beat Generation Meets the Hungry Generation: U.S.—Calcutta Networks and the 1960s “Revolt of the Personal”
This essay explores the relationship between the U.S.-based Beat literary movement and the Hungry Generation literary movement centered in and around Calcutta, India, in the early 1960s. It discusses a trip Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky took to India in 1962, where they met writers associated with the Hungry Generation. It further explains how Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books in San Francisco, was inspired to start a new lite…
The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac is among the most important and influential writers to emerge from mid-twentieth century America. Founder of the Beat Generation literary movement, Kerouac's most famous novel, On the Road, was known as the bible of this generation, and inspired untold people to question the rigid social and cultural expectations of 1950s America. And yet despite its undeniable influence, On the Road is only a small piece of Kerouac's literary achiev…
Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
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