The Beat Generation

Contents: Robert Bennett: Teaching the Beat Generation to Generation X - Ann Douglas: Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement: Kerouac's Poetics of Intimacy - Ronna C. Johnson: «You're putting me on»: Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence - Erik R. Mortenson: Beating Time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road - Steve Wilson: The Author as Spiritual Pilgrim: The Search for Authenticity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Subterraneans - Nancy McCampbell Grace: A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa - Fiona Paton: Reconceiving Kerouac: Why We Should Teach Doctor Sax - Douglas G. Baldwin: Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus: Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs - Timothy S. Murphy: Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch - Terence Diggory: Allen Ginsberg's Urban Pastoral - Jaap van der Bent: «O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam»: Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection - Robert Kern: Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature - A. Robert Lee: Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta - Robert E. Kohn: The Ambivalence of Kotzeinle's Beat and Bardo Ties - Anthony Waine/Jonathan Wooley: «Blissful, Torn, Intoxicated»: Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats.

The Editor: Kostas Myrsiades is Professor of Comparative Literature and editor of College Literature at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author/editor/translator of sixteen books on modern and classical Greek culture and the teaching of literature.