The French genealogy of the Beat generation : Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's appropriations of modern literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux /

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"The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lane, Véronique (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Beats (Persons)
American literature > French influences.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Beatniks.
Littérature américaine > Influence française.
Beat generation.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > French influences
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: beyond "Rimbaud in a raincoat"
  • Burroughs or Kerouac's Rimbaud: to be or not to be "l i t e r a r y"
  • French poetic realist film in Kerouac's first bookmovie
  • Kerouac's humanism: from Celine and Dostoevsky to Proust
  • Burroughs' queer aesthetics: from Gide to Cocteau
  • Looking back on Ginsberg's "Howl" from "Apollinaire's grave"
  • The pitfalls of open secrecy: "Has nobody noticed St.-John Perse?"
  • Burroughs' (anti)humanism: Saint Genet and the last lifeboat
  • Burroughs, Michaux, and the future of literature
  • Conclusion: a purloined genealogy.

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