Josh Finley March 5th‚ 2015 The Beat Generation cannot be adequately characterized by a single theme or philosophy. Their influences came from a wide array of personalized experiences immersed in historical and political revolutions and communicated through individual creativity. The literary work of Beat writers inspired a generation of “hipsters” to attempt elusion of a “square” lifestyle fixated on conformity and conventionalism‚ for which‚ in the Beat’s opinion‚ was ultimately contributing
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Beats and Their Poetry The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. By incorporating influences such as jazz‚ art‚ literature‚ philosophy and religion‚ the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people saw the world. That generation has aged and its representative voices are slowly becoming lost to eternity‚ but the message is alive and well. The Beats have
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helped establish The Beat Generation with his poem “Howl.” The general public did not accept his ideology in the beginning. These days‚ he is known for exactly that. By ignoring the standard writing values of the time and using his style instead‚ Ginsberg created something new. Mainly focusing on politics‚ like The Vietnam War‚ and social injustice is what many believe led some people to read his poetry Allen Ginsberg is best known as one of the founding fathers of The Beat Generation. He wanted to write
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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 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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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 with a definition of the Lost Generation and Hemingway in particular‚ and then I will try to deal with different aspects of Jack Kerouac’s novel
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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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The Beat Goes On The Beat generation of the mid twentieth century produced a culture that had a lasting effect on generations to come. In the decades following the 1950s‚ the Beats successors‚ or ‘spawn’‚ ranged from authors to musicians. These artists were greatly influenced by the Beat’s writings and performances‚ as well as by spending time with the very Beats themselves. Bob Dylan‚ a spawn‚ credited much of his early work to his readings of the Beats and his relationship with Allen Ginsberg
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their novels. Ernest Hemingway corresponds to the “Lost Generation” of 1920’s and Jack Kerouac corresponds to the “Beat Generation” of 1950’s. Both of these generations were after wars. It is not coincidence‚ wars make people devastated and lost. People tried to overcome problems and pain through literature and music. Writers put all their emotions on the paper‚ musicians wrote songs‚ which described the hard time they had. These two generations produced the most talented writers of our days. For us
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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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