Liminality and "Communitas" in the Beat Generation

Autor

Aaron Christopher Mitchell

Editura

Peter Lang Ag

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

316

ISBN

9783631727690

Categorii

In Limbi Străine

Descriere

This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat Generation based on Victor Turner's anthropological studies. Signs of liminality and "communitas" appear in works by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats formed anti-structure in their liminal stage and recorded this in their liminoid literature.