Hip Sublime —— Beat Writers And The Classical Tradition

----- 臀围崇高：批评作家与古典传统

ISBN: 9780814213551 出版年：2018 页码：305 Murnaghan Sheila The Ohio State University Press

Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the beat generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of greco-roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice. Seeking to transcend the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post–world war II america, the beat writers found in their classical models both a venerable literary heritage and a discourse of sublimity through which to articulate their desire for purity. In this volume, a diverse group of contributors explore for the first time the fascinating tensions and paradoxes that arose from interactions between these avant-garde writers and a literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic.