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The Beat Generation: An Overview Summary
108,401 words, approx. 361 pages
The Beat Generation: An Overview Originating in the 1950s and primarily centered in select communities of California, such as North Beach and Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village, the Beat Generation essentially constituted a...
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The Beat “Scene”: East And West Summary
95,858 words, approx. 320 pages
The Beat “Scene”: East And West The settings in which the formative events of the Beat Generation took place included coffeehouses, bars, colleges, and nightclubs of New York City and San Francisco. These were the establishments where...
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Beat Generation Publishing: Periodicals, Small Presses, And Censorship Summary
68,966 words, approx. 230 pages
Beat Generation Publishing: Periodicals, Small Presses, And Censorship The Beat writers faced a significant obstacle to publication: their lifestyle and the writing that reflected it flew in the face of convention and thus distanced them from the...
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Visual Arts And The Beat Generation Summary
58,042 words, approx. 194 pages
Visual Arts And The Beat Generation The relationship between Beat literature and the visual arts mirrors the relationship the Beats had with other areas of society. While such famous Beat authors as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs...
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Beat generation Information
12,149 words, approx. 41 pages
The Beat Generation is a term used to describe both a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called beatniks though this is...
 


News and Journals
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Albuquerque Journal
The Beat Generation
02/22/2002: 858 words, approx. 3 pages
Students fill Rock & Rhythm classes at Jefferson Middle School At Jefferson Middle School, they've taped a new phrase onto that old instructional saw "reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic." That phrase is "rock 'n' roll." Jefferson offers the subject in the four...
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The Boston Globe
For the Beat Generation, a new generation
10/12/1997: 461 words, approx. 2 pages
At The New England School of Art and Design, students shuffle between lockers and class while vivid photographs of writers Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and other shining lights of the Beat Generation look out at the new generation passing by. "Most...
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Reuters North American News Service
Center-leftist beats general at Guatemala vote
11/5/2007: 476 words, approx. 2 pages
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Center-leftist Alvaro Colom won Guatemala's presidential election Sunday, denying power to a retired general who had sought to unleash the army to fight a violent crime wave. Colom, a soft-spoken textile businessman, had an unassailable lead of 5.4 percentage points...
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Reuters North American News Service
Center-leftist beats general in Guatemala election
11/5/2007: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Center-leftist Alvaro Colom won Guatemala's presidential election Sunday, denying power to a retired general who had sought to unleash the army to fight a violent crime wave. Colom, a soft-spoken textile businessman, beat Gen. Otto Perez Molina, the former head...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
Discuss Homosexuality in the Beat Generation
2,554 words, approx. 9 pages
The "Beat Generation" of the 1950s challenged the traditional concepts of the masculine role in society. Beat writers, for the first time in American history, openly addressed taboo subjects such as homosexuality.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Beatnik Literature and Lifestyle
1,460 words, approx. 5 pages
Provides a look into the the American post WWII Beatnik Generation, including its literature, key figures, social and political impact. Authors Jack Kerouac and John Clellon Holmes are profiled.
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Essay Grade: 90%
Sexual Liberation in the Literature of the Beat Generation
1,373 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay discusses the aspect of sexual liberation in the literature of the Beat Generation.
 


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