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Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement (Hardcover)
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Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
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The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative
literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and 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
movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s
generation, headlined by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William
S. Burroughs, a new generation arose in the 1960s led by writers
such as Diane Wakoski, 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 movement s 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 an excellent access point for students, researchers, and
anyone wanting to know more about the Beat Movement."
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