Hip Sublime Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition / Ralph Rosen, Sheila Murnaghan.
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TextPublisher: The Ohio State University Press, Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)ISBN: 9780814213551Subject(s): Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical | Literature -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on the one hand, a discourse of sublimity to help them articulate their desire for a purity of experience, and, on the other, a venerable literary heritage. This volume examines for the first time the intersections between the Beat writers and the Greco-Roman literary tradition. Many of the “Beatsâ€_x009d_ were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, frequently incorporating their knowledge of Classical literature into their own avant-garde, experimental practice. The interactions between writers who fashioned themselves as new and iconoclastic, and a venerable literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic, produced fascinating tensions and paradoxes, which are explored here by a diverse group of contributors.
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| PS217.T7 B8 Literary Transcendentalism | PS217.W64 B69 2004 Writing for Immortality | PS228.B6 F39 2016 World Beats | PS228.B6 H57 2018 Hip Sublime | PS228.I66 C37 2008 Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film | PS228.P6 H84 2009 Qualified Hope | PS228.P69 S38 2009 Where the World Is Not |
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In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on the one hand, a discourse of sublimity to help them articulate their desire for a purity of experience, and, on the other, a venerable literary heritage. This volume examines for the first time the intersections between the Beat writers and the Greco-Roman literary tradition. Many of the “Beatsâ€_x009d_ were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, frequently incorporating their knowledge of Classical literature into their own avant-garde, experimental practice. The interactions between writers who fashioned themselves as new and iconoclastic, and a venerable literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic, produced fascinating tensions and paradoxes, which are explored here by a diverse group of contributors.
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