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Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

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In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on the one hand, a discourse of sublimity to help them articulate their desire for a purity of experience, and, on the other, a venerable literary heritage. This volume examines for the first time the intersections between the Beat writers and the Greco-Roman literary tradition. Many of the “Beatsâ€_x009d_ were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, frequently incorporating their knowledge of Classical literature into their own avant-garde, experimental practice. The interactions between writers who fashioned themselves as new and iconoclastic, and a venerable literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic, produced fascinating tensions and paradoxes, which are explored here by a diverse group of contributors.

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800 MUR h

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: Ohio State University Press., 2018

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English

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9780814213551

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800

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computer

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online resource

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Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical

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Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph M. Rosen

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Kholif Basri

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https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt2204rr5

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