Journal Of Beat Studies
The Journal Of Beat Studies is devoted entirely to the scholarly criticism of its respective field.
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Journal of Beat Studies Volume 9
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique. This issue is a solemn one due to the loss of many notable Beat writers and figures.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 8
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique. Volume 8 features a survey of Beat Studies scholars on the topic of the state of the field and two essays on the poetry of Joanne Kyger.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 7
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique. Volume 7 will feature an article in both English and French, detailing Jack Kerorac’s adoration for libraries.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 6
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 5
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique. The fifth volume of the Journal of Beat Studies honors Ann Charters, emerita professor of English at UConn-Storrs, the first president of the Beat Studies Association, and the founder of the field of Beat Studies. Volume five features a new interview with Charters, the republication of her famed Jack Kerouac: A Bibliography (1967, 1975), never-before-published letters about the bibliography and her 1966 visit with Kerouac to review his archives, as well as testimonials from scholars, an essay on her Herman Melville/Charles Olson research, and photographs by and of Charters and other Beat writers.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 4
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique. This volume contains essays on Gary Snyder, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Ruth Weiss, Helen Adam, and Joanne Kyger, along with reviews of scholarly works on Ken Kesey, Elise Cowen, Philip Whalen, Burroughs, and Greenwich Village. Our new Beat Studies Interview, which will become a regular feature in each volume, debuts with an interview with playwright Rochelle Owens.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 3
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 2
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 13
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted entirely to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, and screenplay writing. This special volume honors Allen Ginsberg ar the centenary of his life. A featured essay dives upon Ginsberg's legacy among the rise of artificial intelligence technology. Jane Falk's interview with Tony Trigilio offers his take on Ginsberg from a 21st centruy perspective and ponders the poet's place in 20th century Anglophone poetry. This volume memorializes Alice Notely and Bob Kaufman, a poet who has also reach the centenary milestone.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 12
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted entirely to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. This volume features the essay “From 91 Revere Street to 9 Lupine Road: Robert Lowell, Jack Kerouac, and Confessional Poetry,” and interviews that remember and celebrate the life of poet and activist Hettie Jones (1934–2024).
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 11
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted entirely to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. This volume’s critical essays are rich in scope. One essay revitalizes the evolutionary place of the poet Kenneth Rexroth, archival research on Kerouac’s ethnic and cultural origins, Ginsberg’s committed engagement with the philosophical traditions of Indian civilization, and The Beat Interview is an archival oral history—published here for the first time—that brings new perspectives to the art scene that flourished around San Francisco’s 6 Gallery.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 10
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique. This special volume 10 of Beat Studies honors the work of Jack Kerouac at the centenary of his birth. On the Road and Kerouac’s other novels are revered by a generation of readers around the world as an “American literary odyssey.” In this issue, pieces written by close friends of Kerouac and those who wished to honor the progress his work set forth, reflect on his work, life, and impact made on the Beat generation and those after.
Journal of Beat Studies Volume 1
The Journal of Beat Studies is devoted exclusively to the scholarly criticism of Beat Generation writing and writers. Its mandate is to provide readers with intelligent and penetrating criticism across the range of Beat writing, including fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, life writing, travel writing, and screenplay writing. The ultimate goal of the journal is to advance the quality of Beat Studies scholarship through the application of diverse critical perspectives that address Beat production as both complex art and cultural critique.