Beat Movement Summary

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Beat Movement Summary

The roots of the Beat literary movement go back to 1944 when Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in New York. It was not until the 1950s that these writers and other "Beats" would be recognized as a movement and as a generation of post-World War II youths whose attitudes and lifestyles were far removed from typical Americana. Kerouac used the term "beat" to describe both the negatives of...

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Encyclopedia Articles (6)

Beat Generation

1,846 words, approx. 7 pages

Beat Generation The Beat Generation, or "Beats," is a term used to describe the vanguard of a movement that swept through American culture after World War II as a counterweight to the su... Read more

Visual Arts And The Beat Generation

61,174 words, approx. 204 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 ... Read more

Performing Arts And The Beat Generation

54,999 words, approx. 184 pages

Performing Arts And The Beat Generation While the works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs garnered considerable public attention, they were not necessarily the first advocates... Read more

Beat Generation Publishing: Periodicals, Small Presses, And Censorship

73,912 words, approx. 247 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... Read more

The Beat “Scene”: East And West

102,555 words, approx. 342 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... Read more

The Beat Generation: An Overview

114,175 words, approx. 381 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,... Read more

Essays & Analysis (5)

Discuss Homosexuality in the Beat Generation

2,613 words, approx. 9 pages

"In the age that coined the word "togetherness" as a synonym for family values, the Beats, each in his own style mounted the first open, sustained assault in American history on the masculine role as ... Read more

Sexual Liberation in the Literature of the Beat Generation

1,422 words, approx. 5 pages

"To rebel! That is the immediate objective of poets! We cannot wait and will not be held back...The `poetic marvelous' and the unconscious are the true inspirers of rebels and poets" . Philip Laman... Read more

The Beat Generation

1,362 words, approx. 5 pages

The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and rel... Read more

Beatnik Literature and Lifestyle

1,498 words, approx. 5 pages

Beat Literature: Social and Political Impacts After the Second World War and into the Cold War, a group of bohemians emerged. They called themselves the Beats. It was in their purpose to provide ... Read more

The Beats

1,402 words, approx. 5 pages

In the 1950's a movement began in the United States mostly by artists and young people in which they rejected social conditions and norms. Instead, they looked for other ways of personal fulfillment... Read more

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