The Cambridge companion to the Beats / edited by Steven Belletto (Lafayette College).
Belletto, Steven, editor.
2017
PS228.B6 C35 2017 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to the Beats / edited by Steven Belletto (Lafayette College).
ISBN 9781107184459 (hardcover)
1107184452 (hardcover)
9781316635711 (paperback)
1316635716 (paperback)
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Language English
Description xxviii, 297 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS228.B6 C35 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/0054
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index.
Added Author Belletto, Steven, editor.
Series Cambridge companions to topics.
Cambridge companions.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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 Ginsberg 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
Ethnographers 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.

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