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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.

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English
Pages
297

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Cambridge Companion to the Beats
2017, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: The Cambridge companion to the Beats
The Cambridge companion to the Beats
2017, Cambridge University Press
in English
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Cambridge Companion to the Beats
2017, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index.

Series
Cambridge companions, Cambridge companions to topics, Cambridge companions to topics
Other Titles
Beats

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/0054
Library of Congress
PS228.B6 C35 2017, PS228.B6, PS228.B6 C36 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 297 pages
Number of pages
297

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26939297M
ISBN 10
1316635716, 1107184452
ISBN 13
9781316635711, 9781107184459
OCLC/WorldCat
964932993

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