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Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

Author
Murnaghan, Sheila, 1951-
Published
Columbus, OH : The Ohio State University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource
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Murnaghan, Sheila, 1951- and Rosen, Ralph Mark
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English
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Summary
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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ISBN
9780814213551
j.ctt2204rr5
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OAPEN Library.
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