The Beat Generation - katrin ziegler垮掉的一代——Katrin齐格勒.ppt

The Beat Generation ... And you thought literature was boring Table of Contents Who are they? What is their style? Some important beat writers. Louis Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg William S. Burroughs Neal Cassady Jack Kerouac Who are they? The BEAT GENERATION denotes a group of American writers who became prominent in the 1950s. The term is derived from ?off-beat“ = unconventional Where could you find them? Most of the writers lived in San Francisco and met in the City Lights Bookstore near Chinatown. What is their style? They developed their own slang. Their attitude was Some important beat writers Some writers survived their generation ... Some important beat writers LOUIS FERLINGHETTI still alive owner of City Lights writes book reviews for San Francisco Chronicle Some important beat writers ALLEN GINSBERG (1926 - 97) Some important beat writers In 1956, he introduced his poem ?Howl“ in the City Lights bookstore to his fellow beatniks. As the poem became more and more graphic, everybody started shouting ?Go, Go, Go“ Of course, politicians didn‘t like this and labeled the poem as obscene. A huge wave of protest led to the breakdown of the obscenity laws in California Some important beat writers WILLIAM BOURROUGHS (1914 - 97) 83 is quite an astonishing age for someone who ... was a confessed drug addict ... and lead quite an unusual lifestyle. Some important beat writers He was bisexual. For decades he lived together with his boyfriend ... after ... ...he had killed his wife William Tell style. Some important beat writers This book is a nightmare for every English student... ... because it is completely unstructured. Contrary to rumours that was Burroughs‘ intention Some important beat writers ... other beatniks didn‘t survive their generation Some important beat writers NEAL CASSADY (1926 - 68) erm, he didn‘t write much, really. He died of an overdose of drugs. Some important beat writers JACK KEROUAC (1922 - 69) He died of drug abuse, too, ... ...