Hip Sublime :   Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition /  
edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen. 
 - 1 online resource (334 pages). 
 - Classical memories/modern identities .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Beats visiting hell: katabasis in Beat literature / Stephen Dickey -- "Thalatta, Thalatta!": Xenophon, Joyce, and Kerouac / Christopher Gair -- "The final fix" and "The transcendent kingdom": the quest in the early work of William S. Burroughs / Loni Reynolds -- The invention of sincerity: Allen Ginsberg and the philology of the margins / Matthew Pfaff -- Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack / Marguerite Johnson -- Riffing on Catullus: Robert Creeley's poetics of adultery / Nick Selby -- Sappho comes to the Lower East Side: Ed Sanders, the sixties avant-garde, and fictions of Sappho / Jennie Skerl -- Robert Duncan and Pindar's dance / Victoria Moul -- Kenneth Rexroth: Greek anthologist / Gideon Nisbet -- Philip Whalen and the classics: "A walking grove of trees" / Jane Falk -- Troubling classical and Buddhist traditions in Diane di Prima's Loba / Nancy M. Grace and Tony Trigilio -- Towards a post-Beat poetics: Charles Olson's localism and the second sophistic / Richard Fletcher -- Afterword: "Standing at a juncture of planes" / Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "With essays that cover canonical Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs as well as less well-known figures like Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima, this volume focuses on the Beat movement's appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics as a formative element of their literary movement"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814276129 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Classical literature--Influence.<br/>Beats (Persons)<br/>Authors, American.<br/>American literature.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.<br/>Beat generation.<br/>Litterature ancienne--Influence.<br/>Litterature americaine--Histoire et critique.--20e siecle<br/>Écrivains americains--20e siecle.<br/>Beatniks.<br/>Classical literature--Influence.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Authors, American--20th century.<br/>Beats (Persons)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Electronic books.