Jack Kerouac, Prophet of the New Romanticism

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Publisher : Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Jack Kerouac, Prophet of the New Romanticism by : Robert A. Hipkiss

Download or read book Jack Kerouac, Prophet of the New Romanticism written by Robert A. Hipkiss and published by Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1976 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791075818
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Jack Kerouac's On the Road by : Harold Bloom

Download or read book Jack Kerouac's On the Road written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.

The New Romanticism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317776003
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Romanticism by : Eberhard Alsen

Download or read book The New Romanticism written by Eberhard Alsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the twentieth-century. Includes three classic essays by Saul bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison.

Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810873974
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement by : Paul Varner

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement written by Paul Varner and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s generation, headlined by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, a new generation arose in the 1960s led by writers such as Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, and poets from the East Side Scene. In the 1970s and 1980s writers from the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and contributors to World magazine continued the movement. The 1980s and 1990s Language Movement saw itself as an outgrowth and progression of previous Beat aesthetics. Today poets and writers in San Francisco still gather at City Lights Bookstore and in Boulder at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and continue the movement. It is now a postmodern movement and probably would be unrecognizable to the earliest Beats. It may even be in the process of finally shedding the name Beat. But the Movement continues. The Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement covers the movement’s history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant novels, poems, and volumes of poetry and prose that have formed the Beat canon. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Beat Movement.

Call Me Burroughs

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Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455511943
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Call Me Burroughs by : Barry Miles

Download or read book Call Me Burroughs written by Barry Miles and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.

The Beat Generation

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Publisher : PediaPress
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Total Pages : 143 pages
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Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900465898X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction by : Alsen

Download or read book Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction written by Alsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.

A Map of Mexico City Blues

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809385988
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis A Map of Mexico City Blues by : James T Jones

Download or read book A Map of Mexico City Blues written by James T Jones and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering critical study of Jack Kerouac’s book-length poem, Mexico City Blues—apoetic parallel to the writer’s fictional saga, the Duluoz Legend—James T. Jones uses a rich and flexible neoformalist approach to argue his case for the importance of Kerouac’s rarely studied poem. After a brief summary of Kerouac’s poetic career, Jones embarks on a thorough reading of Mexico City Blues from several different perspectives: he first focuses on Kerouac’s use of autobiography in the poem and then discusses how Kerouac’s various trips to Mexico, his conversion to Buddhism, his theory of spontaneous poetics, and his attraction to blues and jazz influenced the theme, structure, and sound of Mexico City Blues. Jones’s multidimensional explication suggests the formal and thematic complexity of Kerouac’s long poem and demonstrates the major contribution Mexico City Blues makes to post–World War II American poetry and poetics.

South of Our Selves

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786417469
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis South of Our Selves by : Glenn Sheldon

Download or read book South of Our Selves written by Glenn Sheldon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the work of six American poets who visited Mexico in the 1950s, discussing the complex relationships between location, writing, society, history and dislocation. By interacting with Mexican culture and writing about the experience, these poets had to come to terms with the foreign as well as explore their own identities as Americans. Experiencing Mexico inspired these poets to use many different voices in their poetry, a style in opposition to the hegemony of 1950s American culture. This study compares and contrasts the poets, particularly in terms of class, race, sexual orientation, and gender, and which strategies of "going foreign" each uses. Each chapter examines a poem or series of poems based upon a trip to Mexico. Analyzed in detail are Williams' The Desert Music, Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, Corso's "Mexican Impressions" and "Puma in Chapultepec Zoo," Ginsberg's Siesta in Xbalba, Levertov's "Tomatlan" and others, and Hayden's An Inference of Mexico.

Dictionary Poetics

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Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287998
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Poetics written by Craig Dworkin and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde literature is nonsensical, meaningless, or impenetrable. When read from the right perspective, passages that at first appear to be discontinuous, irrational, or hopelessly cryptic suddenly appear logically consistent, rationally structured, and thematically coherent. Following a methodology of “critical description,” Dictionary Poetics maps the material surfaces of poems, tracing the networks of signifiers that undergird the more familiar representational schemes with which conventional readings have been traditionally concerned. In the process, this book demonstrates that new ways of reading can yield significant interpretive payoffs, open otherwise unavailable critical insights into the formal and semantic structures of a composition, and transform our understanding of literary texts at their most fundamental levels.

Complexities of Motion

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637425
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Complexities of Motion by : Steven P. Schneider

Download or read book Complexities of Motion written by Steven P. Schneider and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers new essays on A. R. Ammons's long poems by many of the most influential critics of contemporary American poetry, including Helen Vendler, Marjorie Perloff, and Willard Spiegelman. It will serve for years to come as an important critical text on a vast body of work by one of the most prolific and innovative practitioners of the long poem in post-World War II American poetry. Complexities of Motion, then, is a collection of new critical articles on the entire range of Ammons's longer poems, beginning with Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965) and culminating with Glare (1997).

Mania

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Publisher : Top Five Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 193893802X
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Mania by : Ronald K. L. Collins

Download or read book Mania written by Ronald K. L. Collins and published by Top Five Books LLC. This book was released on 2013 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mania takes you into the world of the young rebels who transformed American culture in the 1950s-a world of sex, drugs, jazz, crime, insanity, and a defiant new literature. It tells the story of Lucien Carr's killing of David Kammerer, the car chase that led to Allen Ginsberg's committal to a mental asylum, William S. Burroughs' heroin addiction and deadly "William Tell act," Jack Kerouac's seven-year struggle to publish On The Road, and the creation of Ginsberg's ecstatic masterpiece "Howl," which the authorities declared obscene and fought fervently to suppress. It is a story too unbelievable to make up. Book jacket.

Encyclopedia of the American Short Story

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Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140754
Total Pages : 3225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the American Short Story by : Abby H. P. Werlock

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Short Story written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.

The Visionary Moment

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488462
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis The Visionary Moment by : Paul Maltby

Download or read book The Visionary Moment written by Paul Maltby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores and critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism.

Beat Generation Writers

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Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745306612
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Beat Generation Writers by : A. Robert Lee

Download or read book Beat Generation Writers written by A. Robert Lee and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1996-01-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on some of the most popular writers of the last forty years. One of the few books to explore the role of women and gender in the Beat movement.

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109083
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Beat Literature by : Kurt Hemmer

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beat Literature written by Kurt Hemmer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.

The Beat Generation

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741308
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Beat Generation by : Christopher Gair

Download or read book The Beat Generation written by Christopher Gair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without them, the Hippies and the Punks would never have existed. The Beat Generation were a revolutionary group of poets, drifters, musicians, and visionaries whose gritty spontaneous prose explored alienation, repression, and what it meant to be a member of the human race in post-WWII American society. Through the iconic personalities of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, and Burroughs, along with women writers, musicians, and artists, Christopher Gair charts the emergence and true significance of the group, revealing how their fresh approach to literature and a bohemian lifestyle created one of the most exciting and important movements in American literature. Half a century after the publication of the modern classics "Howl" and "On the Road", the movement continues to attract scores of new readers, influencing everything from bebop to the Beastie Boys.