Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem

• Autore: Tytell John
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Disciplina: 810.9/0054; 810.90054
• Soggetto topico: Beat literature - History and criticism; Authors, American - 20th century; Beats (Persons); Authorship; Biography as a literary form; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem
• ISBN: 9780826502971; 0826502970; 9780826520166; 0826520162
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972942303321
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