Actes d'un colloque international de quatre jours consacré à "l'ange tutélaire de l'américanité québécoise" (L. Dussault). Une sélection de 19 interventions a été effectuée : onze en français, huit en anglais. Parmi les participants : E. Waddell, A. Ginsberg, L. Ferlinghetti, R.…
The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? Frenc…
In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60…
William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were three of the most significant figures of the Beat Generation, whose writings have been adapted and appropriated for graphic novels, feature-length films, and other media. Adapting the Beat Poets looks at film versions o…
Kerouac on record: a literary soundtrack
by ProQuest (Firme), Warner, Simon, Sampas, Jim
"He was the king of the Beat Generation and the most dynamic novelist of his time, but Jack Kerouac had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and atte…
Kerouac on record: a literary soundtrack