| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages). |
| Series |
Classical memories/modern identities |
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Classical memories/modern identities.
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| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Beats (Persons)
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Authors, American -- 20th century.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Classical literature -- Influence.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
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| Added Author |
Murnaghan, Sheila, 1951- editor.
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Rosen, Ralph Mark, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hip sublime. Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018] 9780814213551 (DLC) 2017052242 (OCoLC)1000028492 |
| ISBN |
9780814276136 (electronic bk.) |
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081427613X (electronic bk.) |
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9780814276129 (electronic bk.) |
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0814276121 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814213551 |
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