Beats - A Literary History

A look into the Beat movement and its art beyond the scope of the lives of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Steven Belletto is Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 (2017). He is also co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (with Joseph Keith, 2019) and American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (with Daniel Grausam, 2012). He is currently editor for the journal Contemporary Literature.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Belletto, Steven (Lafayette College Belletto, Belletto Steven
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781107176683
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17668-3
• No. of pages: 476
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); History, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Archaeology, Literature: history & criticism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form