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The beats : authorship, legacies / A. Robert Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, A. Robert, 1941- author.
- Series:
- BAAS paperbacks.
- BAAS paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beat literature--History and cricitism.
- Beat literature.
- Beats (Persons)--Influence.
- Beats (Persons).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 239 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- This book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women's Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including 'Howl', On the Road and Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Beat Origins and Circuits, 1940s –1960s
- 2. Allen Ginsberg: Public Privacy
- 3. Jack Kerouac: Road, Jazz, Zen
- 4. Front Row: Insider Beats
- 5. Gallery: Outrider Beats
- 6. Beat’s Women. Women’s Beat
- 7. Afro-Beat
- 8. Inter-Beat. Post-Beat
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474403986
- 1474403980
- OCLC:
- 1312727457
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