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"Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso's complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death."--BOOK JACKET. "Skau covers the complete works of Corso, one of the four major Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs) who attempted to provide an alternative to what they saw as the academic forms of literature dominating American writing through the 1940's and 1950's."--Jacket.

Beat literature. --- Literature --- Corso, Gregory --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

Beat literature --- Beats (Persons) --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Literature --- History and cricitism. --- Influence.

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"Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the '50s. Examining American society in the '50s, Sterritt balances the Beat countercultural goal of rebellion through both artistic creation and everyday behavior against the mainstream values of conformity and conservatism, growing worry over cold-war hostilities, and the "rat race" toward material success." "After an introductory overview of the Beat Generation, its history, its antecedents and its influences, Sterritt shows the importance of "visual thinking" in the lives and works of major Beat authors, most notably Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. He turns to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to portray the Beat writers - who were inspired by jazz and other liberating influences - as carnivalesque rebels against what they perceived as a rigid and stifling social order." "Showing the Beats as social critics, Sterritt looks at the work of '50s photographers Robert Frank and William Klein; the attack against Beat culture in the pictures and prose of Life magazine; and the counterattack in Frank's film Pull My Daisy, featuring key Beat personalities. He further explores expressions of rebelliousness in film noir, the melodramas of director Douglas Sirk, and other Hollywood films." "Finally, Sterritt shows the changing attitudes toward the Beat sensibility in Beat-related Hollywood movies like A Bucket of Blood and The Beat Generation; television programs like Route 66 and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, nonstudio films like John Cassavetes's improvisational Shadows and Shirley Clarke's experimental The Connection; and radically avant-garde works by such doggedly independent screen artists as Stan Brakhage, Ron Rice, Bruce Connor, and Ken Jacobs, drawing connections between their achievements and the most subversive products of their Beat contemporaries."--Jacket.

Beats (Persons) --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and society --- Beat literature --- Experimental films --- Motion pictures --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- History --- History and criticism. --- History.

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The essays collected in this volume constitute a breakthrough in an understanding of the life and works of Kerouac. Fellow Beats, biographers, critics, poets and scholars write about their views of a man who epitomizes both the American Dream and the French-Canadian experience on this continent. Eight essays in English, eleven in French.

Beat generation --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Congrès --- Beats (Persons) --- Congresses. --- Kerouac, Jack --- Authors [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- Beat generation -- Congresses. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Kerouac, Jack, -- 1922-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses. --- Beat literature --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Literature --- History and criticism

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Beat Literature in Europe offers twelve in-depth analyses of how European authors and intellectuals on both sides of the Iron Curtain read, translated and appropriated American Beat literature. The chapters combine textual analysis with discussions on the role Beat had in popular music, art, and different subcultures.The book participates in the transnational turn that has gained in importance during the past years in literary studies, looking at transatlantic connections through the eyes of European authors, artists and intellectuals, and showing how Beat became a cluster of texts, images, and discussions with global scope. At the same time, it provides vivid examples of how national literary fields in Europe evolved during the cold war era.

Beats (Persons) --- Beat literature --- American literature --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Influence --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- History --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- Europe