Beat Literature in a Divided Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36411-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies

Beat Literature in Europe offers twelve in-depth analyses of how European authors and intellectuals on both sides of the Iron Curtain read, translated and appropriated American Beat literature. The chapters combine textual analysis with discussions on the role Beat had in popular music, art, and different subcultures.
The book participates in the transnational turn that has gained in importance during the past years in literary studies, looking at transatlantic connections through the eyes of European authors, artists and intellectuals, and showing how Beat became a cluster of texts, images, and discussions with global scope. At the same time, it provides vivid examples of how national literary fields in Europe evolved during the cold war era.

Contributors are: Thomas Antonic, Franca Bellarsi, Frida Forsgren, Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan, József Havasréti, Tiit Hennoste, Benedikt Hjartarson, Petra James, Nuno Neves, Maria Nikopoulou, Harri Veivo, Dorota Walczak-Delanois, Gregory Watson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Veivo, Harri

James, Petra

Walczak-Delanois, Dorota

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beat Literature in a Divided Europe

Harri Veivo, Petra James and Dorota Walczak-Delanois
1 Literature in a State of Crisis – Beat Poetry, the Modernist Establishment and the Avant-Garde in Iceland

Benedikt Hjartarson


2 In Kainuu as in Colorado – Receptions and Appropriations of Beat Literature in Finland in the 1960s

Harri Veivo


3 Listening to the ‘Feverish Beat’: Between Alienation and Creative Resistance – The Czech Reception of the Beats

Petra James


4 Howl on the Road – Traces of the Beat Movement in Estonian Literature

Tiit Hennoste


5 The Transfer and Appropriations of the Beat Generation in Greece

Maria Nikolopoulou


6 From Pencil Blue to Carnation Red: The Long 1960s and Beat Reception in Portugal

Nuno Miguel Neves


7 Look at the Road! The Polish Way of the Big Beat

Dorota Walczak-Delanois


8 The Beat Generation in Spain: Changes in the Underground Culture

Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan


9 The Reception of Beat Literature in Hungary

József Havasréti


10 Ginsberg, Where Are You? – The Reception of Beat Literature in Austria

Thomass Antonic


11 Reading Beat and Being Beat in Oslo – The Reception and Inspiration of Beat Culture in Post-War Norway

Frida Forsgren


12 Unexploded Bombshells: Beat (Non-)Subversion in the Francophone and Flemish Crucibles

Franca Bellarsi and Gregory Watson


Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harri Veivo, Ph.D. (2001) University of Helsinki, is professor of Nordic Studies at the University of Caen Normandie. He has published many articles and edited volumes on the history of avant-garde and modernism, including “Jazzing up Modernism” (Modernism/Modernity, 2015).

Petra James, Ph.D. (2009) Université Paris-Sorbonne, is chair of Czech Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has published a monograph on Bohumil Hrabal and numerous articles on cultural memory and the comparative history of the avant-garde and edited several collective monographs.

Dorota Walczak-Delanois, Ph.D. (1997) Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, is professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has published widely on poetry and comparative studies, including Inne oblicze awangardy (2001) and Niedoczytani- nierozpoznani. O meandrach poezji polskiej XX i XXI wieku (2016).