品牌：Ann Charters
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：688 页码
·出版日：2003年
·ISBN：0142437530
·条码：9780142437537
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
内容简介
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Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs; the wild, Whitmanesque poetry of Allen Ginsberg; and the lumberjack Zen of Gary Snyder. "The Portable Beat Reader" collects the most significant writing of these and fellow members (and spiritual descendants) of the Beat Generation, including Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Bob Dylan, Leroi Jones, and Michael McClure. In poetry, fiction, essays, song lyrics, letters, and memoirs, it captures the triumphant rudeness, energy, and exhilaration of a movement that swept through American letters with hurricane force.
作者简介
Ann Charters is the editor ofThe Portable Sixties Reader,The Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac'sSelected Letters, andBeat Down to Your Soul. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.
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Amazon.com
The Portable Beat Readeris an excellent and thorough study of the Beat Generation, compiled and edited by Ann Charters, biographer ofJack Kerouacand one of our most notable experts on Beat literature and ideas. This lively work of scholarship goes deeply into the history of the Beat movement, investigating events such as the discovery (by writerWilliam Burroughs) of the wordbeatto describe this literary generation. The reader includes essays on all the major prose and poetry writers, such asAllen Ginsberg, and offers rare insight into the literary-historical context of the movement.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Cutting through bohemian posturing and excess, Charters reprints the most vital material produced by writers of the Beat generation, offering a broad perspective on the movement by including work by lesser-known figures alongside that of leading lights Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Charters, a noted critic of the Beat generation and Jack Kerouac's first biographer, has chosen a representative sample of Beat writings for the latest addition to the Viking "Portables" series. Arranged chronologically in six sections, it includes excerpts from Kerouac's On the Road , Allen Ginsberg's Howl , and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch , as well as work by Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser, and lesser-known figures. "Beat" is used in its broadest sense to cover the San Francisco Renaissance poets and others, including Bob Dylan, who were influenced by or were sympathetic to the Beats. Robert Creeley's work is conspicuously absent. A general introduction as well as introductions to each section attempt to "situate the writers in their political, social, and literary contexts." This is highly recommended.
- William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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