Research Catalog

Title

Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem / John Tytell.

Author

Tytell, John.

Publication

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

ix, 237 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This hybrid memoir of sixteen interconnected essays attempts to reconsider the Beats and to focus as well on the process of writing non-fiction and biography"--

Subjects

• Authorship
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Beats (Persons)
• Tytell, John
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Biography as a literary form

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Engagement. How to write an essay -- The writer as peeping John: on the nature of biographical inquiry -- Hemlock or ambrosia: writing and editorial process -- Notes of a peripatetic lecturer -- Senator tripletalk and the American dream -- Passing through: fifty years @ mind factory -- Reconsidering the beats -- The traveling writer: Beat Mexico -- Kerouac's music -- Ginsberg today -- The oppositional writer: Ed Sanders -- The editor as midwife: writers and little magazines -- The metaphysics of writing. Bombing with words -- A writer's retreat -- Poetic faith: religion and the writer -- A writer's passage -- The donkey and the written word.

Call Number

JFE 14-7764

ISBN

• 9780826520142 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0826520146 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780826520159 (pbk.)
• 0826520154 (pbk.)
• 9780826520166 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014008056

OCLC

874970598

Author

Tytell, John.

Title

Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem / John Tytell.

Publisher

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7764