Many Loves “Resolved to sing no songs henceforth but those of manly attachment” -Walt Whitman “Longing is a better muse than satisfaction”(1) says Regina Marler the author of ‘Queer Beat: How the Beats turned America onto sex’ and this is very true with regard to the nucleus of the generation which broke all rules of hegemonic‚ heterosexual‚ square society‚ a generation that questioned procreation itself‚ that regarded ‘manly love’ as the source of all enlightenment and divinity. Without Kerouac
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The term “beat generation” was coined by John Clellon Holmes in his 1948 article‚ to describe an artistic movement in the mid twentieth century. This movement began as a group of Columbia students in the 40s who wanted to be different and experimented in ways to express their difference. They migrated to San Francisco and grew in size to become a huge influence on American culture‚ inspiring new art and poetry‚ a music genre‚ and two sub-cultures. The Beat Generation‚ through their determination
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The graphic novel The Beats: A Graphic History by author Harvey Pekar‚ editor Paul Buhle‚ and illustrator Ed Piskor is an astonishing look into the lives of those who helped to form the Beat generation‚ including Jack Kerouac‚ Allen Ginsberg‚ William S. Burroughs‚ and even the women of the Beats‚ known as the Beatnik Chicks (160). The graphic novel follows the life of Jack Kerouac after he moved from Lowell‚ Massachusetts to New York in 1939‚ where Kerouac would enjoy jazz music and later meet many
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author Ernest Hemingway is mentioned quite often in the book. This has raised my interest to focus my research on the following. For the purpose of this paper I would like to take a closer look at Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road‚ in context of the Beat Generation‚ in comparison to Ernest Hemingway‚ the leader of the Lost Generation. This paper tries to show the differences and the agreements between the two literary streams and how it influenced the two particular authors. Therefore‚ the paper starts
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Laura De Vos 20053655 January 2009 The American Historical Novel after 1950 Luc Herman and Petrus Van Ewijk Gravity’s Rainbow: Drugs‚ the Counterforce‚ and the Beats Introduction Just as the ghost of Rathenau claims that “secular history is a diversionary tactic” (GR 167[1])‚ I want to investigate in this essay how drugs can be a “diversionary tactic‚” both in the world of the novel as that of the writer. All layers of society in the novel use drugs‚ from Pointsman (GR 168-169) to Tchitcherine
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The Beat Generation The Twentieth Century has witnessed several moments which have helped to shape the face of American culture. Each movement has in some way altered the way we‚ as Americans‚ think and act. One of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of the Beat movement. The Beats were initially a small group of individuals situated in New York. The Beat writers were a small group of friends at first‚ and a movement later. The Beat Generation in literature consisted
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In 1944 Jack Kerouac‚ Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs diverging paths led them to connect with each other in New York City‚ in order to begin what is called The Beat movement. The unexpected ingredient of each personality assisted in the precarious movement of the 1960s. Jack Kerouac originated as a skilled jock from a working class family in Massachusetts; if he had not injured his leg he may chosen to employ his scholarship to enter college as a star football player. However‚ that scenario
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The Beat Generation became extremely popular during the 1950s. The word beats came from a popular beat‚ Jack Kerouac‚ and it came to mean beaten down. However‚ Kerouac seen the Beat Generation as people who were‚ “down and out‚ but who had intense conviction”. The Beat Generation was tired of World War II and began to challenge American culture. The emergence of the Beat Generation caused a major cultural turning point in the United States. For example‚ beats began to challenge American culture
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Disharoon 1 Debra Disharoon Professor Anderson Wrt 101 28 October‚ 2011 “Solitary Sparrow: A Beat Poet’s Desire to be Heard and Understood” Alan Ginsberg was born to Louis and Naomi Ginsberg on June 3‚ 1926 in Newark‚ New Jersey. He came from a proletariat background and grew to be a major influence for the counterculture of the 1950’s and has impacted the lives of people‚ particularly youth‚ for generations. His difficult childhood due to his mother’s mental illness and the resulting stress
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initiated by the insurmountable urge to be free from one’s parents‚ from the responsibilities that lie ahead. In reading and giving careful thought to Jack Kerouac’s novel‚ “On the Road‚” it appeared to be considered the thing to do‚ in reference to the Beat‚ a label implemented to define a youthful counter-culture of the late 1940’s to the early 1960’s‚ that rejected middle class expectations of conformity through the characters of Sal‚ Carlo‚ Dean‚ and Old Bull Lee. This generation historically became
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