Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

by Sheila Murnaghan

Book Overview

Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice. Seeking to transcend the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814213553
• ISBN13: 9780814213551
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"