THE BEAT GENERATION
CRITICAL ESSAYS
EDITED BY Kostas Myrsiades
PETER LANG New York • Washington, D.C./Baltimore • Bern Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Brussels • Vienna • Oxford CONTENTS
Preface ix
Introduction
7 Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X Robert Bennett 1
Chapter One \ Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement: /< Kerouac's Poetics of Intimacy Ann Douglas 21
Chapter Two v "You're putting me on: "Jack Kerouac and the x v Postmodern Emergence Ronna C.Johnson 37
Chapter Three \ Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in x Jack Kerouac's On the Road Erik R. Mortenson 57 vi Contents
Chapter Four The Author as Spiritual Pilgrim: The Search for Authenticity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Subterraneans Steve Wilson 77
Chapter Five A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa Nancy McCampbell Grace 93
Chapter Six Reconceiving Kerouac: Why We Should Teach Doctor Sax Fiona Paton 121
Chapter Seven Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus: Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs Douglas G. Baldwin 155
Chapter Eight Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch TimothyS. Murphy 179
Chapter Nine Allen Ginsberg's Urban Pastoral Terence Diggory 201
ChapterTen "0 fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam": Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection Jaap van der Bent 219
Chapter Eleven Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature Robert Kern 235 Contents vii
Chapter Twelve Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar ZetaAcosta A. Robert Lee 259
Chapter Thirteen The Ambivalence of Kotzeinle's Beat and BardoTies Robert E.Kohn 281
Chapter Fourteen "Blissful,Torn, Intoxicated": Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats J Anthony Waine and Jonathan Wooley 309
List of Contributors 335
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