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"This ... book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naï…
With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating depictions of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs.
As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
Con el paso del tiempo, "En el camino", un libro que fue la biblia y el manifiesto de la generación "beat", se ha convertido en una "novela de culto" y en un clásico de la literatura norteamericana. Con un inconfundible estilo "bop", que consiguió para Kerouac el título de "here…
"En el camino" cuenta las andanzas de Dean Moriarty y Sal Paradise, unos personajes que son un reflejo de Neal Cassady y el propio Kerouac. El primero, delincuente juvenil, ex presidiario y tipo disparatado y entraąble, se dedica a conducir a toda velocidad, pasarse lo ms̀ posibl…
Provides an introduction to the major authors of Beat literature and a critical appraisel of their most significant works.
Neal Cassady: the fast life of a beat hero
by ebrary, Inc, Sandison, David, Vickers, Graham
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This in-depth biography--the first to explore the ups and downs of Neal Cassady--takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was …
This in-depth biography--the first to explore the ups and downs of Neal Cassady--takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was …
"After the second World War, the term "technology" came to signify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. Technomodern Poetics examines how some of the most well-known writers of the era descr…