Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition / / edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen.
"With essays that cover canonical Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs as well as less well-known figures like Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima, this volume focuses on the Beat movement's appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics as a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Columbus : : The Ohio State University Press,, [2018] ©[2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Classical memories/modern identities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 292 pages ) |
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Table of Contents:
- Beats visiting hell: katabasis in Beat literature / Stephen Dickey
- "Thalatta, Thalatta!": Xenophon, Joyce, and Kerouac / Christopher Gair
- "The final fix" and "The transcendent kingdom": the quest in the early work of William S. Burroughs / Loni Reynolds
- The invention of sincerity: Allen Ginsberg and the philology of the margins / Matthew Pfaff
- Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack / Marguerite Johnson
- Riffing on Catullus: Robert Creeley's poetics of adultery / Nick Selby
- Sappho comes to the Lower East Side: Ed Sanders, the sixties avant-garde, and fictions of Sappho / Jennie Skerl
- Robert Duncan and Pindar's dance / Victoria Moul
- Kenneth Rexroth: Greek anthologist / Gideon Nisbet
- Philip Whalen and the classics: "A walking grove of trees" / Jane Falk
- Troubling classical and Buddhist traditions in Diane di Prima's Loba / Nancy M. Grace and Tony Trigilio
- Towards a post-Beat poetics: Charles Olson's localism and the second sophistic / Richard Fletcher
- Afterword: "Standing at a juncture of planes" / Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl.