Author: Poirier, Richard.
Title: The Performing Self : Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1971. orig. wrappers. 20x13cm, 203 pp. PAPERBACK.. Some rubbing. Good. ¶ Contents : A literature of law and order.--The politics of self-parody.-- The literature of waste: Eliot, Joyce, and others.--What is English studies, and if you know what that is, what is English literature?--The performing self.--Learning from the Beatles.--The war against the young: its beginnings.--Rock of ages.--Escape to the future.

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