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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Allen Ginsberg"”.
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Embracing Fracture: The Buddhist Poetics of Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer
… works, both poetic and critical, of two authors, Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer. I explore Allen Ginsberg's relationship with Buddhism, as it changed throughout his life, looking at key poems in his early career, such as "Sakyamuni Coming Out of the Mountain," and "The Change: Kyoto to Tokyo …
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Buddhist Heart - Jewish Soul: A Examination of the Phenomenon of Jewish Buddhists in the United States
… movement of the beats, its founding member Allen Ginsberg and the psychedelic drug experiments of the 1960s were also contributory elements. It demonstrates that because Buddhism and Jewish culture share common values, the Jewish population easily immersed itself in Buddhist practice once …
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The Songs of David Amram: A representative analysis and review of published vocal music for accompanied and unaccompanied voice
… film of the same name. The song, text by Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, is set in a jazz style. Twelve of his songs, published in three collections are drawn either from his incidental music for Shakespeare plays or from his chamber opera, Twelfth Night. Another group …
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Counter-sites in 1980s New York Poetry-Videos
… of the 1980s – Ntozake Shange, Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Holman – and the creation of their onscreen social protests. Developing alongside the first music videos from 1981 and utilising contemporary video technology, I argue that the poetry-videos in this thesis form a distinct …
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… through readings of his correspondence with Allen Ginsberg and the novel The Naked Lunch (1959); the latter's apocalyptic title referring to the "frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork". Chapter Two considers Burroughs's experiments with the "cut-ups" and their …
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"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs"
… are often only mentioned briefly when reading of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs. However, while frequently overlooked or forgotten, the women of the Beat generation have made a public name for themselves after the time of the movement. Embracing and gaining …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
… and broadsides bearing the words and image of Allen Ginsberg constructed and disseminated his public figure, using it as a shorthand, endorsement, and icon for the counterculture. The craft of fine printing turns texts into art objects to the extent that fine print broadsides are often …
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Bohemian resonance: the beat generation and urban countercultures in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s
… controversy surrounding Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg and the instant success of On the Road by Jack Kerouac precipitated a mass-media sensation over the beat generation and its subculture of idiosyncratic writers and artists. As a result, urban districts in which avant-garde …
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Spontaneous Minds and Electric Romanticism: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Dylan, Joplin
… central to electric Romanticism: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. Kerouac’s and Ginsberg’s electric Romanticism resembles the acoustic, but the Beats’ cultural landscape contained technological advancements they used to achieve spontaneous writing—such as typewriters, …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… Six Gallery reading in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg shocked the literary establishment with Howl, and one year before the belated publication of Kerouac's On the Road, both of which changed the face of postwar American literature. These authors, along with other experimental writers on …
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Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture
… and employs the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Allen Ginsberg, Thomas Pynchon, Frank Baum and a range of political and military studies to arrive at a consideration of the form of the missile silo as the epitome of an architecture of storage. The third chapter, ‘Evacuation’, homes in on Cape …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
… of Ralph Ellison, Hunter S. Thompson, and Allen Ginsberg. Furthermore, I argue that artists responded to this imbalance by incorporating electronic communications equipment and the automobile into their compositional process. Examining the production histories and offering close readings of …
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The art and tradition of Black autobiography in the eighteenth century
… poets, such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg, who give various versions of their life stories in poems, have figured in many careful scrutinies of the confessional and autobiographical school of poetry, which goes back to William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman.</p> …
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
… Great Depression. In chapter three, I consider Allen Ginsberg’s first reading of Apollinaire in the middle of his work on ‘Howl’ in 1955, which offered him a new model for how poetry might operate against a background of Cold War paranoia. In chapter four, I turn to Alice Notley’s references to …
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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities
… in a context with the Beat poets, particularly Allen Ginsberg. However, jazz is not the sole point of contact with the USA. Indeed, Larkin engages with the poetry of the confessional poets and exhibits some striking intertextual relations with the poetry of Sylvia Plath.Larkin’s encounters with …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
The primary purpose of this thesis is to stress that there is a relationship between the texts one reads and the psychedelic experiences one may have. Reading texts has an effect on set and setting with respect to psychedelic experiences. Further, texts read—by figures like Timothy Leary—in the …