美国文学-垮掉的一代.doc

American Literature---Beat Generation The Beat Generation and Allen Ginsberg The Beat Generation Representative Person: Allen Ginsberg（1926 - 1997）艾伦·金斯伯格 The father of the Beat Generation American poet vigorously opposed militarism,materialis Practicing buddhist 　 我看见我这一代精英被疯狂摧残殆尽，饿着肚子歇斯底里赤裸着身体， 黎明中踉跄地走过黑人街,四下寻觅想给自己狠狠地打上一针海洛因。 From Howl 《嚎叫》 Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, in Newark, NJ, and grew up in nearby Paterson His father Louis was a published poet, a teacher, and politically a socialist his mother Naomi was a Communist radical, but unfortunately her bouts with mental illness (mostly severe paranoia) consumed much of Ginsbergs childhood 1937,11, He began writing in a journal Walt Whitman 1943,17, He enrolled at Columbia University Jack Kerouac Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs. 1945,19, Ginsberg began writing seriously, and around the same time he began to experiment with drugs, and had some of his first homosexual experiences. In Columbia University Columbias mental hospital 卡尔.所罗门 1948,22 He graduated from Columbia He attempted to renounce homosexuality and took a job as a market researcher upon his release, but hearing the poet William Carlos Williams at a reading drew him back into literature, and he gave up trying to fit into mainstream society. 1955, when Ginsberg read parts of his new epic poem Howl at the Six Gallery. a Beat manifesto it was an immediate sensation. 1956,30, released Ginsbergs first book, the seminal Howl and Other Poems 1957,31, City Lights owner was arrested on obscenity charges for selling copies of the book; authorities objected mostly to its homosexual content. A judge ruled that the book was not obscene, and the attendant publicity helped make Ginsberg a household name. Howl Opening : Empty Mirror(1952) 《空镜》 Howl (1955) Kaddish(1960) 《卡迪什》追忆自己的童年 Reality Sandwiches(1963) 《现实三明治》 Th