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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817412703321

Autore

Tytell John

Titolo

Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8265-0297-0

0-8265-2016-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

810.9/0054

810.90054

Soggetti

Beat literature - History and criticism

Authors, American - 20th century

Beats (Persons)

Authorship

Biography as a literary form

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Prefatory Note -- Part I: Engagement -- 1. How to Write an Essay -- 2. The Writer as Peeping John: On the Nature of Biographical Inquiry -- 3. Hemlock or Ambrosia: Writing and Editorial Process -- 4. Notes of a Peripatetic Lecturer -- 5. Senator Tripletalk and the American Dream -- 6. Passing Through: Fifty Years @ the Mind Factory -- Part II: Reconsidering the Beats -- 7. Two Notes on Beat Origins -- 8. The Traveling Writer: Beat Mexico -- 9. Kerouac's Music -- 10. Ginsberg Today -- 11. The Oppositional Writer -- 12. The Editor as Midwife: Writers and Little Magazines -- Part III: The Metaphysics of Writing -- 13. Bombing with Words -- 14. A Writer's Retreat -- 15. Poetic Faith: Religion and the Writer -- 16. A Writer's Passage -- 17. The Donkey and the Written Word.

Sommario/riassunto

Lessons learned from the Beat Generation, and becoming a writer one



interview, road trip, and page (and occasional drink) at a time.