Diploma Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1, Klagenfurt University (American Culture Studies), language: English, abstract: This scientific work reveals the truth about the most controversial avant-garde movement of the 20th century: The Beat Generation. Detailed syntheses on the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & Co. Without the Beat Generation there would be no modernism in the contemporary world of arts and letters. Learn to look at the world in the visionary way of beat philosophy.

This scientific work reveals the truth about the most controversial avant-garde movement of the 20th century: The Beat Generation. Detailed syntheses on the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & Co. Without the Beat Generation there would be no modernism in the contemporary world of arts and letters. Learn to look at the world in the visionary way of beat philosophy.