The Beats : a literary history

The Beats : a literary history /

"Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation--but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also radiates out to discuss d...

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Main Author: Belletto, Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Beats (Persons) > Philosophy.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century.
Beatniks > Philosophie.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Contre-culture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
American literature.
Counterculture.
Beatgeneration.
Beats (Persons)
Philosophy.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Started (1944-1948). The Wild Outré Gang of Columbia Campus: The Beginnings of a Movement
  • Write for Them About Them Personally: The Beats and Avant-Garde Literary Communities at Mid-century
  • Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948-1957). Hipsters in the Zoo: How the Beats Came Up from the Underground
  • The Rise of the Beat Novel: Factualism to Spontaneity
  • The Rise of Beat Poetry: Raw Experience Meets Raw Language
  • The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958-1962). The Establishment Strikes Back: Beat Becomes Beatnik
  • Little Magazines and Subterranean Networks
  • The Opening of the Field
  • Revisions of the Real
  • Ignus: from the Beat Hotel to Pull My Daisy
  • Beat Politics (1962-1969). The Women Who Said Something
  • Liberating Language
  • The Vietnam Effect
  • Coda.

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