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03861aam a2200409 i 4500 001 71E42510580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170526s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017007922 020 $a 1501325043 020 $a 9781501325045 035 $a (OCoLC)962552885 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d IAK $d YDX $d CNCGM $d OCLCO $d YUS $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a PS228.B6 $b L36 2017 082 00 $a 810.9/0054 $2 23 100 1 $a Lane, VeÌronique, $e author. 245 14 $a The French genealogy of the Beat Generation : $b Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's appropriations of modern literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux / $c VeÌronique Lane. 264 1 $a New York, NY ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 264 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 CeÌline 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. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Beat generation. 650 0 $a American literature $x French influences. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a American literature $x French influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807165 650 7 $a Beat generation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00829327 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lane, VeÌronique author. $t French genealogy of the Beat generation $d New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 $z 9781501325052 $w (DLC) 2017027765 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710105913.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=71E42510580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search