The Beats
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The Beats: Authorship, Legacies
By A. Robert LeeExplores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat Generation Gives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationally Includes chapters on significant women writers such as Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger and Anne ...
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The Beats
By A. Robert Lee, Caroline Blinder"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.
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The Beats: A Very Short Introduction
By David SterrittThis book explains how the Beats used their antiauthoritarian visions and radical styles to challenge dominant values, fending off absorption into mainstream culture while preparing ground for the larger, more explosive social upheavals of ...
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The Beats: A Graphic History
By Harvey Pekar, Ed PiskorA tour of America's underground literary movement, presented in a graphic tale format, includes coverage of the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Jack Kerouac, Chicago's beatnik bistro, and San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.
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The Beats: A Teaching Companion
By Nancy Gracedifficulties with LSD, producing an unsatisfactory portrayal in “Lysergic Acid” before being satisfied with his account of the drug in “Wales Visitation.” Drug use pushes subjectivity to its limits, and written accounts of drugs allow ...
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The Beats: A Very Short Introduction
By David SterrittDrug experimentation was a way for Beats to challenge square society's joy-killing values while getting powerfully high in the process. Historically, most Beats were into “body” drugs before psychedelic “mind” drugs came their way.
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The Beats: A Literary History
By Steven BellettoKerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement.
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The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation
By Mike EvansThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the defining book of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac wrote his masterpiece in one frenzied three-week period...
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The Beats: A Graphic History
By Harvey Pekar, Ed PiskorJacket design by AARON ARTESSA Jacket art by ED PISKOR HILL AND WANG A division of Farrar , Straus and Giroux www.fsgbooks.com www.thebeatsbook.com Praise for THE BEATS : A GRAPHIC HISTORY “ The.
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The Beats
In the late 50s after an unsuccessful stint in college, Larry Fink dropped out and began an odyssey of hitchhiking through America. Striking out that great Beat mecca, New York...
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The Beats: A Literary Reference
By Matt TheadoUses photographs, manuscript reproductions, book jackets, personal correspondence, reviews, and interviews to discuss the cultural and political impact of the beat generation.
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The Beats: A Documentary Volume
By Matt TheadoThis award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and...
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The Beats: A Graphic History
By Harvey Pekar, Ed PiskorJack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs would write their own masterpieces but taken together, as the Beats, they would also become a focal point for a literary explosion and a generation of revolution.
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The Beats: A Very Short Introduction
By David SterrittThis book offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beat Generation, explaining how their drastic visions and radical styles challenged postwar America's dominant values in ways that can still be ...