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Hip Sublime Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition / edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Classical memories/modern identities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical literature--Influence.
- Classical literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--20th century.
- Authors, American.
- Beats (Persons).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages )
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus, OH The Ohio State University Press 2017
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- "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 formative element of their literary movement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814276136
- 081427613X
- 9780814276129
- 0814276121
- OCLC:
- 1111384783
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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