the beat generation(英语)2.pptVIP

The Character “Beat” The Representative Figureand works 2 Jack Kerouac His masterpiece：on the road Beats comment Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose “没有人知道我们究竟是催化剂，还是发明物，抑或只是实验中产生的一堆没用的泡沫。我想，我们三者都是。” —— Allen Ginsberg Some ideas of Beat Generation 1.Spiritual liberation, sexual “revolution” or “liberation 精神自由和性解放 2.The spread of ecological consciousness普及生态保护意识 3. Opposition to the military-industrial machine civilization反对军事－工业文明 4.Respect for land and indigenous peoples and creatures.尊重本土文化和原住居民 The effect of Beat Generation 1. an important part of post-modernism literature. 2. fight against tradition and promote personality liberation. 3. create the rock music to some degree 4.some ideas such as drugs, sex are not good for teenager’s grown-up and cause the society’s chaos indirectly My opinions * * The Origination The Beat Generation is a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. 1.experimentation with drugs 2.alternative forms of sexuality 3.an interest in Eastern religion 4.a rejection of materialism 5.unexpurgated(未删改的、完整的） means of expression and being. The Representative Figureand works 1 Allen Ginsberg（艾伦 金斯堡） William Burroughs(威廉·博罗斯) His masterpiece： Howl His masterpiece：Naked Lunch Jack is the man who brought up the name Beat Generation in the 1950s. The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. “这个所谓的‘垮掉的一代’是一群人，来自不同国籍，他们持有一个共同的想法，就是这个社会不可救药了 ———- Amiri Ba