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Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Oliver Harris Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg,
Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political
Economy of Beat Letters
O liver H arris
n June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New
York World Telegram...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 499–506.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Thom Robinson The Cambridge Companion to the Beats , edited by Belletto Steven . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 297 pages. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory , by Melehy Hassan . London : Bloomsbury , 2016 . 255 pages. Beat Drama: Playwrights...
View articletitled, The Cambridge Companion to the <span class="search-highlight">Beats</span> ed. by Steven Belletto, Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory by Hassan Melehy, <span class="search-highlight">Beat</span> Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the “Howl” Generation ed. by Deborah R. Geis
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Gertrude Stein’s Baroque Beats: Measuring Counterpoint and the Science of Rhythm
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (1): 59–86.
Published: 01 March 2025
... (2003 : 118) traces how ragtime music was thought to be a source of a neurasthenic disorder, made “evident” by the rough and exhausted voice of performers, and by the irregular heartbeats and syncopal episodes suffered by listeners as they were exposed to the syncopated beat of such music. Similarly...
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Slum Simulacra: Jack Kerouac, Oscar Lewis, and Cultures of Poverty
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 243–272.
Published: 01 September 2022
... those at the other” (164). Likewise, Hassan Melehy recontextualizes Kerouac within the doubly dispersed exile of the Quebecois in Canada and the French Canadian diaspora in New England. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Beat generation counterculture...
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“Solitary Bartlebies”: Kerouac’s On the Road and the Ideology of the Superhighway
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 170–196.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-release/automotive/average-age-light-vehicles-us-rises-slightly-2015-115-years-ihs-reports . Kerouac Jack . (1957) 1991 . On the Road . New York : Penguin . Kerouac Jack . 1992 . “ Essentials of Spontaneous Prose .” In The Portable Beat Reader , edited by Charters Ann , 57...
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The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (2): 191–197.
Published: 01 June 2025
... the rich history of transnational cultural exchange between the United States and Czechia, illuminating aspects of American literature that were hitherto unnoticed, whether it is Franz Kafka’s role in the forming of the Beat counterculture (26), F. O. Matthiessen’s engagement with the Czechoslovak cultural...
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Transamerican Transformations and American Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2011
...), the critical geographies of fugitive slave
narratives written in Mexico as well as the US and Canada (Chapter
Two), the perspectives on mainstream “American” literary movements
such as modernism and the Beats made possible by a transnational or
non-US-based optic (Chapters Three and Four), comparative...
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Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry by Justin Quinn
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., even as science became the era’s dominant mode of knowledge production. In its liveliest section, chapter 3 turns to Holub and his love of the Beats. This affinity will surprise many readers, since Holub, an immunologist as well as a poet, “projected” an image of himself as a “hard-working...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., for example, but it is his success ethic itself together with his destitution that demands that he always have “things to do” (63), that he always leave her “to try his luck, to see if anything had changed” (84). In intuiting here how the economy of beating is linked to her being left behind, the Girl...
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Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and “Howl”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 245–270.
Published: 01 September 2023
... On .” Modernism/modernity 3 , no. 4 . https//modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/responses-special-issue-weak-theory-part-i . Felski Rita . 2015 . The Limits of Critique . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Foreman Janet Weinreich Regina , dirs. 1987 . The Beat Generation...
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The Last Quatrain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ends of Ballads
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 September 2010
... been a like a
Ballad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood.
A wildness cut up, and tied in little bunches,
Like the four-line stanzas of the ballads she had never quite
Understood—the ballads they had set her to, in school.
(Blacks 333)
Though she...
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Imaginary Africa and London’s Urban Wasteland in Edith Sitwell’s “Gold Coast Customs”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 March 2010
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described as resembling “the rhythms of the tom-tom and the rhythms
of jazz” (Glendinning 132) and as a “danse macabre [in which] [e]very
second syllable is stressed to imitate a drum beat” (Cevasco 70). In her
own later commentary on the poem, Sitwell herself describes this beat as
“[t]he beating...
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Cultural Exchange in a Black Atlantic Web: South African Literature, Langston Hughes, and Negritude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 481–512.
Published: 01 December 2014
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by a book under Drum’s own imprint, edited by Peggy Rutherfoord,
called Darkness and Light (released in the United States under the title
African Voices), which overlapped with Hughes’s collection insofar as it
included stories by Modisane, Rive, and Themba. If Rutherfoord beat
Hughes to press...
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The Last Frontier: Burroughs’s Early Work and International Tourism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 2013
... (a project which accompanied his more well-known East
Texas farm, which grew marijuana and opium and served as an entertain-
ment venue for other Beats). “Burroughs saw the farmer as the embodi-
ment of American free enterprise and rugged individualism,” Johnson
writes (61); “although [his...
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Re-Sounding Folk Voice, Remaking the Ballad: Alan Lomax, Margaret Walker, and the New Criticism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 232–259.
Published: 01 June 2013
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by William Laidlaw and edited by Walter Scott for his Minstrelsy of the
Scottish Border: “’O where have you been, my long, long love, / this
long seven years and mair?’ / ‘O I’m come to seek my former vows /
Ye granted me before’” (Child 4:361). Rhymed ABCB, with a virtual
beat at the ends...
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Chester Himes and the Equality of Hurt
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... After his detailing how beatings and
solitary confinement clearly do hurt him—in ways evident to him as they
happen—the hurt here is at once personal (“my deriving from outside,
associated with the overall process of imprisonment, and one that he can
endure unawares. In comparison to life...
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Writing Dialectic
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 249–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
... that
the Beat writers, such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, responded so strongly
to jazz and made it a galvanizing part of their own lingo was because
the music and the romanticized lifestyle of its musicians (Miles Davis,
Charlie Parker, et al.) signified spontaneous expression...
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Indecent Modernism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 105–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in no change to the law. Still, the hearing gave
Shaw a platform from which to voice his grievances publicly and thus
allowed him to position himself on the forefront of the anticensorship
movement. Despite his outward defiance against the censor, Shaw beat a
tactical retreat by abandoning “unpleasant...
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American Tramps: Transient Gesture and Lyric Form in Hart Crane
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
... by his archenemy, the beat cop on patrol. For Crane, such a dilemma makes the Tramp a kind of figure for the poet, and the lyric “we,” it is hoped, might function as a shelter or camouflage for threatened modes of feeling: “I am moved to put Chaplin with the poets (of today), hence the ‘we,’” Crane...
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Eliot in the Tropics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2005
... North
American writers on Caribbean literature, he also gives full attention
to the regional reviewers of Brathwaite and Walcott, many of whom are
themselves significant poets.
The book closest in content to this one is June Bobb’s Beating a Rest
less Drum: The Poetics of Kamau...
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