《英美诗歌鉴赏课件》Beat_Generation.pptVIP

Beat Generation Beat movement A Bohemian rebellion against established society which came to prominence about 1956 and had its centers in San Francisco and New York City. The term “Beat” expressed both exhaustion and beatification(受福) in that the writers, tired of conventional society, and disgusted by it, believed that thoroughgoing（彻底的） disaffiliation（切断联系） from all aspects of the manners and mores（道德观） of what they saw as a corrupt, crass（粗糙的）, commercial world would bring its own kind of blissful illumination（启发）, aided by drink and drugs. Writers of the movement expressed their views in their own “hip” vocabulary, combined with phrases from Buddhism by which they were influenced, but there is a personal statement and power that goes beyond this jargon in the works of the leading literary figures, who include the poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and their San Francisco publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the novelist Jack Kerouac. Older writers who related to the movement included Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, and Kenneth Rexroth. Close to them and yet removed in part from the Beat movement because of his greater violence is William Burroughs. Background information The movement after WWII. Holocaust, A-Bomb, Modern scientific development, McCarthyism, doubt on American Dream The young men who grew up during the Second World War thought that American society was full of corruption, selfishness, hypocrisy, commercialization. These young people seemed interested in nothing. It seems that these young people enjoy life to their hearty, spiritually they have nothing. They drank, took drugs, believed oriental Buddhism. New York and San Francisco, City Light 1. Allen Ginsberg Howl 2. Jack Kerouac On the Road 3. William Burroughs Junkie, The Naked Lunch 4. Laurence Ferlinghetti 5. Norman Mailer Context Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. He had a private and Catholic early education, and he got a football scholarship to C