Historical dictionary of the beat movement /
Paul Varner.
- Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012
- 1 online resource (xvii, 375 pages).
- Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts .
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Article Abstract: "The Beat Movement was and is a literary and arts movement, the most radical and innovative of the 20th century, and because it was so open to new ideas of poetics and aesthetics, it has adapted from decade to decade. The history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s generation, a new generation arose in the 1960s led by writers such as Diane Wakowski, Anne Waldman, and poets from the East Side Scene. In the 1970s and 1980s writers from the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and contributors to World magazine continued the movement. The 1980s and 1990s Language Movement saw itself as an outgrowth and progression of previous Beat aesthetics. Today poets and writers in San Francisco still gather at City Lights Bookstore and in Boulder at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and continue the movement. It is now a postmodern movement and probably would be unrecognizable to the earliest Beats. It may even be in the process of finally shedding the name Beat. But the Movement continues. The Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement covers the movements history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant novels, poems, and volumes of poetry and prose that have formed the Beat canon. This book is a vital reference tool for any researcher interested in learning more about the Beat Movement"-- Provided by publisher.
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1900-1999 Beats (Persons) - Dictionaries American literature - 20th century - Bio-bibliography - Dictionaries Authors, American - 20th century - Biography - Dictionaries �Ecrivains am�ericains - 20e si�ecle - Biographies - Dictionnaires anglais LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American American Literature Authors, American Beats (Persons)