The Beats and the Academy
Title | The Beats and the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Mortenson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9781802072396 |
"As the first scholarly treatment of the relationship between Beat writers and the academy, this book will open exciting new directions in the field of Beat Studies and will reshape our understanding of the historical tensions between the Beats and higher education"--
The Beats and the Academy
Title | The Beats and the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Mortenson |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2023-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1638040524 |
The Beats and the Academy marks the first sustained effort to train a scholarly eye on the dynamics of the relationship between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they taught. Rather than assuming the relationship between Beat writers and institutions of higher education was only a hostile one, The Beats and the Academy begins with the premise that influence between the two flows in both directions. Beat writers' suspicion of established institutions was a significant aspect of their postwar countercultural allure. Their anti-establishment aesthetic and countercultural stance led Beat writers to be critical of postwar academic institutions that tended to dismiss them as a passing social phenomenon. Even today, Beat writing still meets resistance in an academy that questions the relevance of their writing and ideas. But this picture, like any generalization, is far too easy. The Beat relationship to the academy is one of negotiation, rather than negation. Many Beats strove for academic recognition, and quite a few received it. And despite hostility to their work both in the postwar era and today, Beat works have made it into syllabi, conference resentations, journal articles, and monographs. The Beats and the Academy deepens our understanding of this relationship by emphasizing how institutional friction between the Beats and institutions of higher education has shaped our understanding of Beat Generation literature and culture—and what this relationship between Beat writers and the academy might suggest about their legacy for future scholars.
Beast Academy Guide 2A
Title | Beast Academy Guide 2A PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Batterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781934124307 |
Beast Academy Guide 2A and its companion Practice 2A (sold separately) are the first part in the planned four-part series for 2nd grade mathematics. Book 2A includes chapters on place value, comparing, and addition.
Beast Academy Practice 2B
Title | Beast Academy Practice 2B PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Batterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2018-03-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781934124338 |
Beast Academy Practice 2B and its companion Guide 2B (sold separately) are the second part in the planned four-part series for 2nd grade mathematics. Level 2B includes chapters on subtraction, expressions, and problem solving.
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
Title | Save the Cat! Writes a Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Brody |
Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2018-10-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0399579753 |
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing. Revealing the 15 "beats" (plot points) that comprise a successful story--from the opening image to the finale--this book lays out the Ten Story Genres (Monster in the House; Whydunit; Dude with a Problem) alongside quirky, original insights (Save the Cat; Shard of Glass) to help novelists craft a plot that will captivate--and a novel that will sell.
The Best Minds of My Generation
Title | The Best Minds of My Generation PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Ginsberg |
Publisher | Penguin Books Limited |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780141399010 |
"In the summer of 1977, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. This was twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to make a record of the history of Beat Literature. Compiled and edited by renowned Beat scholar Bill Morgan, and with an introduction by Anne Waldman, The Best Minds of My Generation presents the lectures in edited form, complete with notes, and paints a portrait of the Beats as Ginsberg knew them: friends, confidantes, literary mentors, and fellow revolutionaries. Ginsberg was seminal to the creation of a public perception of Beat writers and knew all of the major figures personally, making him uniquely qualified to be the historian of the movement. In The Best Minds of My Generation, Ginsberg shares anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs, and other writers for the first time, explains his own poetics, elucidates the importance of music to Beat writing, discusses visual influences and the cut-up method, and paints a portrait of a group who were leading a literary revolution. For academics and Beat neophytes alike, The Best Minds of My Generation is a personal and yet critical look at one of the most important literary movements of the twentieth century"--
The Beats
Title | The Beats PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Grace |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2021-03-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1949979962 |
'[This] survey of the many little magazines carrying the Beat message is impressive in its coverage, drawing attention to the importance of their paratextual content in providing valuable socio-political context. [...] The collection contains a range of insightful close readings, astute contextualizing, and inventive lateral pedagogical thinking, charting the transformation of the Beat scene from its free-wheeling, self-help, heady revolutionary 1960’s days to its contemporary position as an increasingly respectable component of the curriculum. [...] The Beats: A Teaching Companion is successful on a number of levels; it is a noteworthy contribution to the ever expanding field of Beat studies and, more broadly, cultural studies; and it is a collection that at its best gives hope that in referring to its ideas the inspired teacher may still be able to enlarge the lives of their students.' John Shapcott, Keele University