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Hip sublime : Beat writers and the classical tradition /

"With essays that cover canonical Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs as well as less well-known figures like Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima, this volume focuses on the Beat movement's appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics as a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murnaghan, Sheila, 1951- (Editor ), Rosen, Ralph Mark (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Colección:Classical memories/modern identities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beats visiting hell: katabasis in Beat literature / Stephen Dickey
  • "Thalatta, Thalatta!": Xenophon, Joyce, and Kerouac / Christopher Gair
  • "The final fix" and "The transcendent kingdom": the quest in the early work of William S. Burroughs / Loni Reynolds
  • The invention of sincerity: Allen Ginsberg and the philology of the margins / Matthew Pfaff
  • Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack / Marguerite Johnson
  • Riffing on Catullus: Robert Creeley's poetics of adultery / Nick Selby
  • Sappho comes to the Lower East Side: Ed Sanders, the sixties avant-garde, and fictions of Sappho / Jennie Skerl
  • Robert Duncan and Pindar's dance / Victoria Moul
  • Kenneth Rexroth: Greek anthologist / Gideon Nisbet
  • Philip Whalen and the classics: "A walking grove of trees" / Jane Falk
  • Troubling classical and Buddhist traditions in Diane di Prima's Loba / Nancy M. Grace and Tony Trigilio
  • Towards a post-Beat poetics: Charles Olson's localism and the second sophistic / Richard Fletcher
  • Afterword: "Standing at a juncture of planes" / Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl.