Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation
by John Tytell
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Pt. I. The Broken Circuit -- Pt. II. First Conjunctions -- Pt. III. William Burroughs -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Pt. III. The Books -- The Black Beauty of William Burroughs -- Jack Kerouac: Eulogist of Spontaneity -- Allen Ginsberg and The Messianic Tradition.Tags
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John Tytell is author of Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation, Reading New York, and Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. He has taught modern American literature at Queens College since 1963.
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- Jack Kerouac; William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Gregory Corso
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; New York, USA; Paris, France; San Francisco, California, USA; California, USA
- Important events
- Beat Generation
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5409 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS228 .B6 .T9 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 20th century
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
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