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Author : Kurt Hemmer
Release : 2010-05-12
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by : Kurt Hemmer
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beat Literature written by Kurt Hemmer. This book was released on 2010-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.
Author : Sharin N. Elkholy
Release : 2012-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 80X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of the Beats by : Sharin N. Elkholy
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Beats written by Sharin N. Elkholy. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "beat generation" -- introduced by Jack Kerouac in 1948 -- characterized the underground, nonconformist youths who gathered in New York City at that time. Together, these writers, artists, and activists created an inimitably American cultural phenomenon that would have a global influence. In their constant search for meaning, the Beats struggled with anxiety, alienation, and their role as the pioneers of the cultural revolution of the 1960s. The Philosophy of the Beats explores the enduring literary, cultural, and philosophical contributions of the Beats in a variety of contexts. Editor Sharin N. Elkholy has gathered leading scholars in Beat studies and philosophy to analyze the cultural, literary, and biographical aspects of the movement, including the drug experience in the works of Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, feminism and the Beat heroine in Diane Di Prima's writings, Gary Snyder's environmental ethics, and the issue of self in Bob Kaufman's poetry. The Philosophy of the Beats provides a thorough and compelling analysis of the philosophical underpinnings that defined the beat generation and their unique place in modern American culture.
Author : Allen Ginsberg
Release : 1963
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 216/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 by : Allen Ginsberg
Download or read book Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 written by Allen Ginsberg. This book was released on 1963. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake-up nightmares in Lower East Side, musings in public library, across the U.s. in dream auto, drunk in old Havana, brooding in Mayan ruins, sex daydreams on the West Coast, airplane vision of Kansas, lonely in a leafy cottage, lunch hour in Berkeley ... a wind-up book of dream notes, psalms, journal enigmas, & nude minutes from 1953 to 1960 poems scattered in fugitive magazines here collected now book.
Author : Anne Waldman
Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Beat Book by : Anne Waldman
Download or read book The Beat Book written by Anne Waldman. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the best of the beats edited by Anne Waldman (who should know) and containing a chronology of the movement from Kerouac to Snyder. The emphasis is on the the poetry and prose excerpts; However, the volume includes brief biographical sketches, an introduction by Ginsberg, a recommended beat vacation guide of the places where the gang passed out or recovered, and more scholarly references. The writers selected for inclusion represent the core of beat: Corso, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, di Prima, Burroughs, Baraka, Ferlinghetti, Kyger, Kandel, Kaufman, Whalen, McClure, and Snyder. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Paul Varner
Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 890/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement by : Paul Varner
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement written by Paul Varner. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s generation, headlined by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, a new generation arose in the 1960s led by writers such as Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, and poets from the East Side Scene. In the 1970s and 1980s writers from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and contributors to World magazine continued the movement. The 1980s and 1990s Language Movement saw itself as an outgrowth and progression of previous Beat aesthetics. Today poets and writers in San Francisco still gather at City Lights Bookstore and in Boulder at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and continue the movement. It is now a postmodern movement and probably would be unrecognizable to the earliest Beats. It may even be in the process of finally shedding the name Beat. But the Movement continues. The Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement covers the movement's history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant novels, poems, and volumes of poetry and prose that have formed the Beat canon. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Beat Movement.
