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The American Schoolyard: A Critical Study of Charles Bukowski's Short Fiction

Year: 2025

Type: dissertation

Abstract: Charles Bukowski is one of America's most prolific writers. He has published forty-five books of poetry and prose and is translated in over a dozen languages, Recently he wrote the screenplay for the movie Barfly. However, despite his accomplishments, Bukowski has received little critical attention from the academic world. It is thought that his works are too violent or too pornographic to be deserving of critical attention. In this thesis, I attempt to show that this is not the case. Using Marxist, feminist, and Freudian analyses of Bukowski's short fiction, I show that Bukowski's work is, without a doubt, worthy of academic study.

Source: ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University)

DOI: 10.25777/bze3-6658

Author: Weiss, Jonathan D.

Institution: Old Dominion University

Language: English

Topic: American and British Literature Analysis

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6964916968

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