Liminality and «Communitas» in the Beat Generation

ISBN-13: 9783631727690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Aaron Christopher Mitchell

Opis

This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat Generation based on Victor Turner's anthropological studies. Signs of liminality and "communitas" appear in works by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats formed anti-structure in their liminal stage and recorded this in their liminoid literature.

Spis treści

Discovering the Liminal Beat Generation and its «Communitas» - Anthropology and the Beat Generation - Liminality and the Beat Generation - «Communitas» and the Beat Generation - Liminality and «Communitas» in Jack Kerouac's Pilgrimages - Countercultures and the Beat Generation

O autorze

Aaron Christopher Mitchell teaches English language and American cultural studies courses at the University of Vechta. His interests lie in German and American literature and culture.