Research Catalog

Title

The Beat generation : critical essays / edited by Kostas Myrsiades.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Myrsiades, Kostas.

Description

x, 352 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beats (Persons)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X -- Telepathic shock and meaning excitement: Kerouac's poetics of intimacy -- "You're putting me on:" Jack Kerouac and the postmodern emergence -- Beating time: configurations of temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the road -- The author as spiritual pilgrim: the search for authenticity in Jack Kerouac's On the road and The subterraneans -- A white man in love: a study of race, gender, class, and ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The subterraneans, and Tristessa -- Reconceiving Kerouac: why we should teach Doctor sax -- Word begets image and image is virus: underminig language and film in the works of William S. Burroughs -- Intersection points: teaching William Burroughs's Naked lunch -- Allen Ginsberg's urban pastoral -- "O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat connection -- Mountains and rivers are us: Gary Snyder and the nature of the nature of nature -- Chicanismo's Beat outrider? The texts and contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta -- The ambivalence of Kotzeinle's Beat and Bardo ties -- "Blissful, torn, intoxicated": Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats.

Call Number

JFE 03-10300

ISBN

0820457787 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001038848

OCLC

47927604

Title

The Beat generation : critical essays / edited by Kostas Myrsiades.

Imprint

New York : Peter Lang, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Myrsiades, Kostas.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-10300