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Orpheus Emerged

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orpheus Emerged written by Jack Kerouac and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2005 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently discovered by the estate of Jack Kerouac, 'Orpheus Emerged' chronicles the passions, conflicts, and dreams of a group of bohemians searching for truth while studying at a university. Written shortly after the iconic Beat author met Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and others in and around Columbia University, the story showcases the emerging core of the Beat Generation. This book offers a unique portrait of an artist as a young man and shows a writer in the process of finding the voice that would eventually express the spirit of his contemporaries.

Kerouac

Author : Paul Maher
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589793668
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Kerouac written by Paul Maher and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative biography of writer, poet, and beat generation icon Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), whose novel On the Road catapulted him to the forefront of the literary world and influenced budding writers for generations to come. A legendaryfigure in the landscape of American literature, Kerouac lived a turbulent life, one more intimately connected to his literary output than perhaps any other writer. Restless traveler, alcoholic, dissolute but devoted Catholic, and genius, Kerouac lived hard with his compatriots of the beat movement--William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady. With them, he created a new type of American literature as well as an enduring literary mythology. Kerouac: The Definitive Biography recounts in gripping detail the story of this exceptional life and the key relationships that affected Kerouac's development as an artist, including those with his three wives, numerous girlfriends, and beloved mother. Most important, Kerouac is the first biography based wholly on the vast array of primary source materials contemporary to the events described--letters, postcards, diaries, journals, notebooks, newspaper and magazine articles, legal documents, and television andaudio transcripts--sources that provide an unparalleled view of the intimate thoughts and everyday world of Kerouac.

The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics

Author : Stefano Maffina
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471706850
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics written by Stefano Maffina and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work revolves round the analysis of Jack Kerouac's complex identity and his main artistic inspirations. Even though the writer was born in Lowell, MA, he was raised in a Franco-American family with strong bonds with the Quebec region. The resultant split identity led to deep existential doubts that Kerouac was never able to overcome. However, the awareness of his cultural dichotomy proved extremely important for his own work. Indeed, the Beat author was able to reach an original poetics which was inspired by both American and French writers. Despite Kerouac's innovative style and writing method, an analysis of the artists who influenced his work could help contextualize and better understand his literary and linguistic genius.

The Princetta

Author : Anne-Laure Bondoux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908840
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Princetta written by Anne-Laure Bondoux and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Malva-the Princetta of Galnicia-flees her kingdom and an arranged marriage, only to find herself betrayed by the very man who promised to help her. Orpheus is the son of a sea-captain-turned-pirate and is determined to make a name of his own commanding a ship in Galnicia's royal armada. But when their paths cross on the high seas, so do their destinies. Together the Princetta and Orpheus will travel to edges of the Known World and beyond . . . a journey from which only one of them will return alive. Shipwrecks, shark attacks, barbarians, and mysterious archipelagos await readers in this lavish fantasy-adventure written by one of France's most celebrated authors.

The Princess and the Captain

Author : Anne-Laure Bondoux
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140882552X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Princess and the Captain written by Anne-Laure Bondoux and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malva is the princess of Galnicia, destined to marry the Prince of Andemark. Or so her parents think. On the eve of her wedding, she escapes at dead of night from under her parents' noses, little realising that she is letting herself in for a life of peril and adventure, including being shipwrecked in a huge storm and captured as part of a harem. Hugely visual, the book tells of the wonder of frozen steppes and oriental palaces, of sailing ships and treasure islands. This is a book of drama, magic and excitement, where challenges have to be overcome, friendships cemented and hearts broken.

Becoming Kerouac

Author : Paul Maher Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589796888
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Kerouac written by Paul Maher Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac's troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality stamped its importance on his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular language that united thoughts on the human condition and spiritual liberation. Becoming Kerouac: A Writer In His Time affixes Kerouac's life and art in a fresh way, giving readers a rich perspective from which to understand this 20th-century literary genius. Using unpublished archival material, Becoming Kerouac focuses on the writer's critical formative years ––1940 to 1957–– to demonstrate his growth as a novelist and poet. Maher contends that Kerouac developed his singular language to capture human consciousness as it never had before. His futilities catapulted American literature to reflect its restless post-World War II anxieties. Narrating the events that comprised Kerouac's life, biographers have long struggled to illustrate his complexness and the contradictions that shaped his determinations and dogged his relationships. But without consideration of the writing, the troubles in life fail to reveal their deeper resonances by skillfully analyzing the work while tracing the events. Maher achieves a full portrait, revealing struggles that problematize his work. Becoming Kerouac fuses Kerouac's life and art to comprehend this misunderstood literary genius.

The Magic of the Orphic Hymns

Author : Tamra Lucid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644117215
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of the Orphic Hymns written by Tamra Lucid and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recaptures the magical vitality of the original Orphic Hymns • Presents literary translations of the teletai that restore important esoteric details and correspondences about the being or deity to which each hymn is addressed • Includes messages inscribed on golden leaves meant to be passports for the dead as well as a reinvention of a lost hymn to Number that preserves the original mystical intent of the teletai • Explores the obscure origins and the evolution of the Orpheus myth, revealing a profound influence on countercultures throughout Western history As famous Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote, “No magic is more powerful than that of the Orphic Hymns.” These legendary teletai of Orpheus were not simply “hymns”—they were initiatic poems for meditation and ritual, magical, and ceremonial use, each one addressed to a specific deity, such as Athena or Zeus, or a virtue, such as Love, Justice, and Equality. Yet despite the mystical concepts underlying them, the original hymns were formulaic, creating an obstacle for translators. Recapturing the magical vitality that inspired mystery cults through the ages, Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac present new versions of the teletai that include important esoteric details and correspondences about the being or deity to which each hymn is addressed. The authors also include a new version of a lost hymn called “Number” and messages that were inscribed on golden leaves meant to be passports for the dead, reinventions that preserve the original magical intent and mysticism of the teletai. Revealing the power of the individual hymns to attune the reader to the sacred presence of the Orphic Mysteries and the higher order of nature, the authors also show how, taken together, the Orphic Hymns are a book of hours or a calendar of life, addressing every event, from birth to death, and walking us through all the experiences of human existence as necessary and holy.

Reflections on a Simple Twist of Fate: Literature, Art, and Parkinson's Disease

Author : Dean Scaros
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483469255
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on a Simple Twist of Fate: Literature, Art, and Parkinson's Disease written by Dean Scaros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when our lives are suddenly disrupted by chronic or terminal illness? Of course, science, family, faith and friends are there to help. But as author Dean Scaros demonstrates in this elegantly written and affecting book all the issues we face as a result of illness have been expressed through human artistic sensibility. We have been seeking meaning and solace -- and have often found it - ever since we painted figures on the walls of our caves. This book considers - through the lens of great literature and art- issues that are important to us as we struggle to come to terms with progressive, debilitating illness: issues such as, personal dignity, courage, fear, hope, love, time, chance, fate and friendship, to name just a few. These issues are not physical or clinical. Rather they concern the ways in which we think and feel about our experience. Reflecting on them affords us an opportunity to better understand our experience and even gain a measure of wisdom from it.

Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Simon Warner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441171126
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll written by Simon Warner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture. Simon Warner examines the interweaving strands, seeded by the poet/novelists Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others in the 1940s and 1950s, and cultivated by most of the major rock figures who emerged after 1960 - Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Bowie, the Clash and Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. This fascinating cultural history delves into a wide range of issues: Was rock culture the natural heir to the activities of the Beats? Were the hippies the Beats of the 1960s? What attitude did the Beat writers have towards musical forms and particularly rock music? How did literary works shape the consciousness of leading rock music-makers and their followers? Why did Beat literature retain its cultural potency with later rock musicians who rejected hippie values? How did rock musicians use the material of Beat literature in their own work? How did Beat figures become embroiled in the process of rock creativity? These questions are addressed through a number of approaches - the influence of drugs, the relevance of politics, the effect of religious and spiritual pursuits, the rise of the counter-culture, the issue of sub-cultures and their construction, and so on. The result is a highly readable history of the innumerable links between two of the most revolutionary artistic movements of the last 60 years.

Brother-Souls

Author : Ann Charters
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628467711
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Brother-Souls written by Ann Charters and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they were—in Holmes’s words—“Brother Souls.” Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term “Beat Generation” to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes. From 1948 to 1951, when Kerouac’s wanderings took him back to New York, he and Holmes met almost daily. Struggling to find a form for the novel he intended to write, Kerouac climbed the stairs to the apartment in midtown Manhattan where Holmes lived with his wife to read the pages of Holmes’s manuscript for the novel Go as they left the typewriter. With the pages of Holmes’s final chapter still in his mind, he was at last able to crack his own writing dilemma. In a burst of creation in April 1951, he drew all the materials he had been gathering into the scroll manuscript of On the Road. Biographer Ann Charters was close to John Clellon Holmes for more than a decade. At his death in 1988 she was one of a handful of scholars allowed access to the voluminous archive of letters, journals, and manuscripts Holmes had been keeping for twenty-five years. In that mass of material waited an untold story. These two ambitious writers, Holmes and Kerouac, shared days and nights arguing over what writing should be, wandering from one explosive party to the next, and hanging on the new sounds of bebop. Through the pages of Holmes’s journals, often written the morning after the events they recount, Charters discovered and mined an unparalleled trove describing the seminal figures of the Beat Generation: Holmes, Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and their friends and lovers.

The Cambridge Companion to the Beats

Author : Steven Belletto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107184452
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Beats written by Steven Belletto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.

Mythology Puzzles

Author : Joel Jessup
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398840432
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Mythology Puzzles written by Joel Jessup and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use your sleuthing skills to unveil the secrets of the labyrinth or your mathematical prowess to help the Greeks win the Trojan War in this engaging Mythology Puzzles book! With more than 100 puzzles to complete, you'll use your wit and reasoning just like legendary heroes such as Perseus or Theseus. This collection will strengthen your logic and intelligence through challenging puzzles to engage your deductive, mathematical, and critical reasoning abilities. With fantastic images alongside the puzzles, you'll be transported to ancient times, solving complex enigmas to help protect your heroes against mythical beasts, and more! Once finished, even defeating the minotaur will seem like a breeze for a puzzle superstar like you!? This collection is the perfect gift for lovers of puzzle books or mythology!

Fragrance and Wellbeing

Author : Jennifer Peace Rhind
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 0857010735
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Fragrance and Wellbeing written by Jennifer Peace Rhind and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years fragrance has been used, across many varied cultures, for altering mental and emotional states, and as part of spiritual practice. This book explores the impact of fragrance on the psyche from biological, anthropological, perfumery and aromatherapy viewpoints. Beginning with an exploration of our olfactory system and a discussion of the language of odour, the book examines the ways in which fragrance can influence our perceptions and experiences. It introduces us to a broad range of fragrance types – woody, resinous, spicy, herbaceous, agrestic, floral and citrus, as well as the attars that form part of Unani Tibb medicine. Traditional and contemporary uses and the mood-enhancing properties of fragrance types are presented. The book then provides an overview of the theoretical and philosophical frameworks that have been used to analyse how and why we choose fragrance. Finally readers are given guidance on how to cultivate their olfactory palate, which reveals a new dimension in the use of fragrance to enhance wellbeing. This book offers a wealth of knowledge on plant aromatics and the powerful influence of fragrance on wellbeing. It will be of particular interest to aromatherapists, perfumers, psychotherapists, ethnobotanists and anthropologists.

Journeys from Wimbledon Common

Author : Neil Matthews
Publisher : Acorn Independent Press
ISBN 13 : 1909121010
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journeys from Wimbledon Common written by Neil Matthews and published by Acorn Independent Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voice Is All

Author : Joyce Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123963
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Voice Is All written by Joyce Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new biography of Jack Kerouac from the author of the award-winning memoir Minor Characters Joyce Johnson brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend in this compelling new book. Tracking Kerouac’s development from his boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, through his fateful encounters with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and John Clellon Holmes to his periods of solitude and the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in his composition of On the Road followed by Visions of Cody, Johnson shows how his French Canadian background drove him to forge a voice that could contain his dualities and informed his unique outsider’s vision of America. This revelatory portrait deepens our understanding of a man whose life and work hold an enduring place in both popular culture and literary history.

The French Genealogy of The Beat Generation

Author : V�ronique Lane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501325043
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The French Genealogy of The Beat Generation written by V�ronique Lane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical study of the key role that modern French literature played in the formation and development of the oeuvres of the major American Beat writers in the mid-20th century.

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674023994
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C. In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between "Oriental" and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared.