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Paperback Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition Book

ISBN: 0814254691

ISBN13: 9780814254691

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

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Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice. Seeking to transcend the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America,...

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