LEADER 03782nam 22005171 450 001 9910511991203321 005 20170608101112.0 010 $a1-5013-2507-8 010 $a1-5013-2505-1 010 $a1-5013-2506-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501325076 035 $a(CKB)4340000000214324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4983605 035 $a(OCoLC)1124370929 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09261385 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000214324 100 $a20171115d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe French genealogy of the Beat generation $eBurroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's appropriations of modern literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux /$fVe?ronique Lane 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 311 $a1-5013-5200-8 311 $a1-5013-2504-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : beyond "Rimbaud in a raincoat" -- Burroughs or Kerouac's Rimbaud : to be or not to be "l i t e r a r y" -- French poetic realist film in Kerouac's first bookmovie -- Kerouac's humanism : from Celine and Dostoevsky to Proust -- Burroughs' queer aesthetics : from Gide to Cocteau -- Looking back on Ginsberg's "Howl" from "Apollinaire's grave" -- The pitfalls of open secrecy : "Has nobody noticed St.-John Perse?" -- Burroughs' (anti)humanism : Saint Genet and the last lifeboat -- Burroughs, Michaux, and the future of literature -- Conclusion : a purloined genealogy. 330 $a"The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much more than inspire its first major writers, it materially shaped their works, as this comparative study reveals through close textual analysis of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's appropriations of French literature and culture. Sometimes acknowledged, sometimes not, their appropriations take multiple forms, ranging from allusions, invocations and citations to adaptations and translations, and they involve a vast array of works, including the poetic realist films of Carne? and Cocteau, the existentialist philosophy of Sartre, and the poems and novels of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Proust, Gide, Apollinaire, St.-John Perse, Artaud, Ce?line, Genet and Michaux. While clarifying the extent of Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's engagements with French literature and culture, in-depth analysis of their textual appropriations emphasises differences in their views of literature, philosophy and politics, which help us understand the early Beat circle was divided from the start. The book's close-readings also transform our perception of Burroughs' cut-up practice, Kerouac's spontaneous prose, and Ginsberg's poetics of open secrecy."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aAmerican literature$xFrench influences 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBeat generation 606 $2Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xFrench influences. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBeat generation. 676 $a810.9/0054 700 $aLane$b Ve?ronique$01068199 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511991203321 996 $aThe French genealogy of the Beat generation$92552742 997 $aUNINA