TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Ralph
AU  - Murnaghan,Sheila
TI  - Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition 
SN  - 9780814213551
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/5c2c997c-a033-4216-97e4-30f5555dd432
ER  -