Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Lane, Véronique (1980-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The French genealogy of the Beat Generation [Texte imprimé] : Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's appropriations of modern literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux / Véronique Lane

Publication : New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Description matérielle : xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index
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? French modernism did much more than inspire its first major writers, it materially shaped their works, as this comparative study reveals through close textual analysis of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's appropriations of French literature and culture. Sometimes acknowledged, sometimes not, their appropriations take multiple forms, ranging from allusions, invocations and citations to adaptations and translations, and they involve a vast array of works, including the poetic realist films of Carne and Cocteau, the existentialist philosophy of Sartre, and the poems and novels of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Proust, Gide, Apollinaire, St.-John Perse, Artaud, Celine, Genet and Michaux. While clarifying the extent of Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's engagements with French literature and culture, in-depth analysis of their textual appropriations emphasises differences in their views of literature, philosophy and politics, which help us understand the early Beat circle was divided from the start. The book's close-readings also transform our perception of Burroughs' cut-up practice, Kerouac's spontaneous prose, and Ginsberg's poetics of open secrecy

Sujet(s) : Beat generation -- Influence française  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  810.900 54 (23e éd.) = Littérature américaine de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - 1945-1999  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501325045. - ISBN 1501325043. - ISBN 9781501352003. - ISBN 1501352008. - ISBN 9781501325052 (erroné) (ePub ebook)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb46616359g

Notice n° :  FRBNF46616359 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction: Beyond "Rimbaud in a raincoat" ; Burroughs or Kerouac's Rimbaud : to be or not to be "l i t e r a r y" ; French poetic realist film in Kerouac's unknown bookmovie ; Kerouac's humanism : from Céline and Dostoevsky to Proust ; Burroughs' queer aesthetics : from Gide to Cocteau ; Looking back on Ginsberg's "Howl" from "Apollinaire's grave" ; The pitfalls of open secrecy : "Has nobody noticed St.-John Perse?" ; Burroughs' (anti)humanism : Saint Genet and the last lifeboat ; Burroughss' Mugwumps, Michaux's Meidosems and the future of literature ; Conclusion: A purloined genealogy.