LEADER 04377nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910449670003321 005 20210615024021.0 010 $a1-282-35827-8 010 $a9786612358272 010 $a0-520-93934-4 010 $a1-59734-463-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939349 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000552 035 $a(EBL)223201 035 $a(OCoLC)475927262 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102417 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124990 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102417 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10048721 035 $a(PQKB)11339100 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223201 035 $a(DE-B1597)520251 035 $a(OCoLC)56034955 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223201 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062274 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235827 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000552 100 $a20030717d2004 mb 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican scream$b[electronic resource] $eAllen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation /$fJonah Raskin 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-24677-2 311 0 $a0-520-24015-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPREFACE --$tCHAPTER ONE. Poetickall Bomshell --$tCHAPTER TWO. Family Business --$tCHAPTER THREE. Trilling-esque Sense of "Civilization" --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Juvenescent Savagery --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Just like Russia --$tCHAPTER SIX. Ladies, We Are Going through Hell --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Another Coast's Apple for the Eye --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Mythological References --$tCHAPTER NINE. Famous Authorhood --$tCHAPTER TEN. This Fiction Named Allen Ginsberg --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Best Minds --$tNotes and Sources --$tIndex 330 $aWritten as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures-Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman-who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time. As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl.A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl-a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature. 606 $aLiterature and mental illness$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoetry$xPsychological aspects 606 $aMental illness in literature 606 $aBeat generation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature and mental illness$xHistory 615 0$aPoetry$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aMental illness in literature. 615 0$aBeat generation. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aRaskin$b Jonah$f1942-$01045217 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449670003321 996 $aAmerican scream$92471309 997 $aUNINA