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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.

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Author:   Harri Veivo ,  Petra James ,  Dorota Walczak-Delanois
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   35
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9789004364110

ISBN 10:   9004364110
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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 Poznań, 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).

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