The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0014
Katharine Streip
{"title":"Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism","authors":"Katharine Streip","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This essay captures more contemporary philosophical perspectives on Beat literature, specifically William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, through the application of humanist, posthumanist, and transhumanist philosophies. The essay also includes a detailed list of key philosophical resources for teaching this approach.","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116252979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0019
A. Friedman
{"title":"When the Beat in Beat Studies is the Beat in Offbeat Comedy","authors":"A. Friedman","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121962399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0013
E. Mortenson
{"title":"Drug Use and Beat Writers","authors":"E. Mortenson","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The essay draws on fictional and nonfiction accounts of Beat drug use, distinguishing between mind-expanding drugs, such as marijuana, or hallucinogens, such as LSD, and more addictive substances, such as opiates and amphetamines. The essay contextualizes Beat drug use in western literary traditions, while also encouraging course instructors to consider the gender, race, and class differences in drug use and the persistent racial and class stereotyping fuelling anti-drug rhetoric","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131955525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0007
Ronna C. Johnson
{"title":"Gender, Race, and Narrative in On the Road","authors":"Ronna C. Johnson","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129414208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0009
Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
{"title":"Expanded Poetry and the Beat Generation","authors":"Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the interdisciplinary poetics of California poet ruth weiss through the lens of expanded poetry, a legacy of Gene Youngblood’s theory of expanded cinema, Encarnacion-Pinedo frames “expanded poetry” as a useful tool to use in the classroom to understand weiss’s integration of the written word, visual image, and musical sound.","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116120607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0002
Matt Theado
{"title":"A History of U.S. Censorship of Beat Writing","authors":"Matt Theado","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"13 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128172159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0023
John Whalen-Bridge
{"title":"Connecting Youthful Dissent and the Global Ecological Future when Teaching the Work of Gary Snyder","authors":"John Whalen-Bridge","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126061898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BeatsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0005
David Stephen Calonne
{"title":"Spirituality and Religious Traditions in Beat Literature","authors":"David Stephen Calonne","doi":"10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781949979954.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explicates a Beat fascination with esoteric religious traditions, including astrology, alchemy, and Gnosticism, illuminating heterodoxies characterizing countercultural minorities from antiquity to the present and shaping the Beat imagination. Calonne presents detailed readings of the poetry of Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Michael McClure","PeriodicalId":134467,"journal":{"name":"The Beats","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131932342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}