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oapen-20.500.12657-305462024-03-25T09:51:37Z Hip Sublime Murnaghan, Sheila Rosen, Ralph Literature Allen Ginsberg Catullus Jack Kerouac Pindar Poetics Robert Creeley Sappho thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers 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 “Beats” 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. 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:00:52Z 2020-04-01T13:00:52Z 2017-11-01 book 645362 OCN: 1030817154 9780814213551 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30546 eng Classical Memories/Modern Identities Paul Allen Miller and Richard H. Armstrong, Series Editors application/pdf n/a 645362.pdf The Ohio State University Press 10.2307/j.ctt2204rr5 100786 10.2307/j.ctt2204rr5 81dece0b-2c7f-42c9-84d3-58c98f0c33fc b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780814213551 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Columbus, OH 100786 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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 “Beats” 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.
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