Artículos relacionados a Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition...

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Classical Memories/Modern Identities) - Tapa blanda

Libro 2 de 5: Classical Memories/Modern Identitie

Murnaghan, Sheila

 
9780814254691: Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Classical Memories/Modern Identities)
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0814254691 ISBN 13: 9780814254691
Editorial: The Ohio State University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice. Seeking to transcend the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers found in their classical models both a venerable literary heritage and a discourse of sublimity through which to articulate their desire for purity.
 
In this volume, a diverse group of contributors explore for the first time the fascinating tensions and paradoxes that arose from interactions between these avant-garde writers and a literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic. With essays that cover the canonical Beat authors-such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs-along with less well-known figures-including Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima-Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition brings long overdue attention to the Beat movement's formative appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics.
 

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey.
Ralph M. Rosen is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire.
 

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
The Ohio State University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0814254691
ISBN 13 
9780814254691
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
304
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible