Adapting The Beat Poets

Author : Michael J. Prince
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442273252

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Adapting the Beat Poets by Michael J. Prince Pdf

In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years, the key texts of Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac have been appropriated for a new generation in feature-length films, graphic novels, and other media. In Adapting the Beat Poets: Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouc on Screen, Michael J.Prince examines how works by these authors have been translated to film. Looking primarily at three key works—Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Ginsberg’s Howl, and Kerouac’s On the Road—Prince considers how Beat literature has been significantly altered by the unintended intrusion of irony or other inflections. Prince also explores how these screen adaptations offer evidence of a growing cultural thirst for authenticity, even as mediated in postmodern works. Additional works discussed in this volume include The Subterraneans, Towers Open Fire, The Junky's Christmas,and Big Sur. By examining the screen versions of the Beat triumvirate’s creations, this volume questions the ways in which their original works serve as artistic anchors and whether these films honor the authentic intent of the authors. Adapting the Beat Poets is a valuable resource for anyone studying the beat generation, including scholars of literature, film, and American history.

Author : Raj Chandarlapaty
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476636702

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Seeing the Beat Generation by Raj Chandarlapaty Pdf

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and they explored homosexuality, feminism and hyper-masculinity, redefining America's marital and familial codes. Teaching such a history can be daunting, but film adaptations of Beat literature have proven to engage students. This book looks closely at the film adaptations of works by such authors as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Carolyn Cassady, Amiri Baraka and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they relate to American history and literary studies.

Author : Simon Warner,Jim Sampas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501323379

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Kerouac on Record by Simon Warner,Jim Sampas Pdf

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds – from the blues to Broadway ballads – and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Kerouac's musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work – from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names – Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death Cab for Cutie, and many more – credited Kerouac's impact on their output. In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations of the adventures he brought to the printed page.

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628923728

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The History of American Literature on Film by Thomas Leitch Pdf

From William Dickson's Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann's big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like Moby-Dick, particular literary periods like the American Renaissance, or particular genres like the novel, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed American literature as a cinematic genre in its own right-one that reflects the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas even as it plays a decisive role in defining American literature for a global audience.

Author : Raj Chandarlapaty
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675756

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Seeing the Beat Generation by Raj Chandarlapaty Pdf

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and they explored homosexuality, feminism and hyper-masculinity, redefining America's marital and familial codes. Teaching such a history can be daunting, but film adaptations of Beat literature have proven to engage students. This book looks closely at the film adaptations of works by such authors as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Carolyn Cassady, Amiri Baraka and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they relate to American history and literary studies.

Author : A. Robert Lee,Douglas Field
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638040170

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Harold Norse by A. Robert Lee,Douglas Field Pdf

Who was Harold Norse? Despite publishing over a dozen volumes of poetry between the early 1950s and the new millennium, until now, the Brooklyn-born Norse has been relegated to a footnote in accounts of twentieth century literary history. Harold Norse: Poet Maverick, Gay Laureate is the first collection of essays devoted to this enigmatic poet and visual artist. As this volume explores, Norse, who developed his craft while living in Europe during the 1950s and 1960s, is an important figure in the development of mid-twentieth century poetics. During the 1950s and 1960s, Norse was a notable figure in the plethora of little poetry magazines published in the USA and Europe through to skirmishes with respectability and acceptance (Penguin and City Lights). Norse is a key figure in the development of the cut-up process made famous by his friend, William S. Burroughs. His correspondence with his mentor, the poet William Carlos Williams, captures his poetic shifts from formalism to the development of his Brooklyn idiom, while his gripping autobiography, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, documents his transatlantic networks of writers and artists, among them James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Bukowski. And after returning to the US in the late 1960s, Norse emerged as leading figure in Gay Liberation poetry. List of contributors: Jan Herman, Erik Mortenson, A. Robert Lee, Fiona Paton, Daniel Kane, Steven Belletto, Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo, Ronna C. Johnson, Kurt Hemmer, Chad Weidner, Benjamin J. Heal, Tate Swindell, Andrew McMillan, Douglas Field, Jay Jeff Jones, Todd Swindell, and James Grauerholz.

Author : William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Mitten Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1941110703

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Don't Hide the Madness by William S. Burroughs,Allen Ginsberg Pdf

An intense, compelling conversation between legendary Beat icons William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, featuring photos by Ginsberg, and details of Burroughs' shamanic exorcism of the demon that led him to shoot his wife and drove his work as a writer.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6J61

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Selections from the British Classics by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630653

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918) by Ian Brown Pdf

In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745306616

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Beat Generation Writers by A. Robert Lee Pdf

Focuses on some of the most popular writers of the last forty years. One of the few books to explore the role of women and gender in the Beat movement.

Author : N. Grace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137014498

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The Transnational Beat Generation by N. Grace Pdf

This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : anboco
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736405448

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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing." The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0877790426

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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature by Merriam-Webster, Inc Pdf

Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Beat Generation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rich Weidman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781617136344

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The Beat Generation FAQ by Rich Weidman Pdf

(FAQ). The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's prophetic, William Blakean-style poem "Howl" (1956) and William S. Burroughs' groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity trials, while Jack Kerouac's highly influential novel On the Road (1957) was blamed by the establishment for corrupting the nation's youth and continues to this day to serve as a beacon of hipster culture and the bohemian lifestyle. The Beat writers shared a vision for a new type of literature, one that escaped the boundaries of academia and employed an organic use of language, inspired by the spontaneity and improvisational nature of jazz music and abstract expressionism (Kerouac coined this writing style "spontaneous prose"). In search of deeper meaning, Beat Generation writers experimented not only with language but also with spirituality, art, drugs, sexuality, and unconventional lifestyles. Although the movement as a whole flamed out quickly in the early 1960s, replaced by the onset of the hippie counterculture, the Beats made an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness and left a long-lasting influence on its art and culture. This book details the movement its works, creative forces, and its legacy.