The Beats: A Literary History

ISBN-13: 9781107176683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 476 str.

Steven Belletto

Opis

By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history that focuses on text rather than biography. This reframes Beat scholarship around the merits of Beat literary production, rather than the lives of the artists.

Recenzje

'Having defined a good literary history as one with a coherent and consistent intellectual perspective, I enthusiastically recognize Steven Belletto's The Beats as the best example of the genre published this year … The Beats is not just good history; it is a good story, well told.' David J. Nordloh, American Literary Scholarship

Spis treści

Part I. Get Hip, My Soul: How It All Started (1944–1948): 1. The wild outré gang of Columbia campus: the beginnings of a movement; 2. Write for them about them personally: the Beats and avant-garde literary networks at midcentury; Part II. Underground to Literary Celebrity (1948–1957): 3. Hipsters in the zoo: how the Beats came up from the underground; 4. The rise of the Beat novel: factualism to spontaneity; 5. The rise of Beat poetry: raw experience meets raw language; Part III. The Beatnik Era and the Profusion of Beat Literature (1958–1962): 6. The establishment strikes back: Beat becomes Beatnik; 7. Little magazines and subterranean networks; 8. The opening of the field; 9. Revisions of the real; 10. Ignus: from the Beat Hotel to Pull My Daisy; Part IV. Beat Politics (1962–1969): 11. The women who said something; 12. Liberating language; 13. The Vietnam effect; Coda.