| Description |
225 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / A. Robert Lee -- 1. The Names: Allen Ginsberg's Writings / John Muckle -- 2. 'I'm only a jolly storyteller': Jack Kerouac's On The Road and Visions of Cody / R. J. Ellis -- 3. Journeys in the Mindfield: Gregory Corso Reconsidered / Jim Philip -- 4. An Anarchist Among the Floorwalkers: The Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Alistair Wisker -- 5. William Burroughs and Language / David Ingram -- 6. The Prisoner of Self: The Work of John Clellon Holmes / Cynthia S. Hamilton -- 7. 'Why do we always say angel?': Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady / Clive Bush -- 8. Black Beats: The Signifying Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman / A. Robert Lee -- 9. The Archaeology of Gender in the Beat Movement / Helen McNeil -- 10. 'I say my new name': Women Writers of the Beat Generation / Amy L. Friedman |
| Summary |
Focusing on some of the most popular writers of the last 40 years, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, this new collection also examines the work of John Clellon Holmes and Herbert Huncke as well as offering a first ever consideration of black beat writers like LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. The first introduction to Beat writers to explore the role of women and gender, through memoirists such as Carolyn Cassady and Bonnie Bremser, as well as the Beats as political activists, this study examines the key influences on the movement, such as an Indian and Buddhist philosophy, the sixties' counter-culture, the poetry of Emerson and Whitman and European trends and the Modernist tradition |
| Analysis |
English literature |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Beats (Persons)
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Bohemianism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Lee, A. Robert, 1941-
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| LC no. |
95007723 |
| ISBN |
0745306608 hardback |
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0745306616 paperback |
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