The Cambridge companion to the Beats
edited by Steven Belletto.
Bok Engelsk 2017
| Medvirkende | Belletto, Steven, (editor.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : The beat half-century / Steven Belletto -- Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a generation? / William Lawlor -- Beatniks, hippies, yippies, feminists, and the ongoing American counterculture / Jonah Raskin -- Locating a Beat aesthetic / Regina Weinreich -- The Beats and literary history : myths and realities / Nancy M. Grace -- Allen Ginsburg and Beat poetry / Erik Mortenson -- Five ways of being Beat, circa 1958-59 / Steven Belletto -- Jack Kerouac and the Beat novel / Kurt Hemmer -- William S. Burroughs : beating postmodernism / Oliver Harris -- Memory babes : Joyce Johnson and Beat memoir / Brenda Knight -- Beat writers and criticism / Hilary Holladay -- The Beats and gender / Ronna C. Johnson -- The Beats and sexuality / Polina Mackay -- The Beats and race / A. Robert Lee -- Ethnographies and networks : on Beat transnationalism / Todd F. Tietchen -- Buddhism and the Beats / John Whalen-Bridge -- Beat as beatific : Gregory Corso's Christian poetics / Kirby Olson -- Jazz and the Beat generation / Michael Hrebeniak -- The Beats and visual culture / David Sterritt.. - The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a profound effect not only on the direction of American literature, but also on models of socio-political critique that would become more widespread in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together the most influential Beat scholars writing today, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the Beat movement, asking critical questions about its associated figures and arguing for their importance to postwar American letters.
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| ISBN | 1-316-87706-X. - 1-316-88678-6
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