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1、英教二班2009140132张玉印BeatGenerationFourImportantWritersTheBeatGenerationLikethe“LostGeneration”ofthe1920s,theAmerican“BeatGeneration”ofthe1950snamesbothaliterarycurrentandabroaderculturalphenomenonormood.Rejectingtheconformismandstresson“normality”oftheTrumanandEisenhoweryears,theBeatsemphasi
2、zedanopennesstovarietiesofexperiencebeyondthelimitsofmiddle-classsociety;theyexploredthecultural“underground”ofbebopjazz(比博普爵士乐),druguse,sexuality,andnon-Westernreligions.TheBeatGeneration:Why?TheCounterCulturalChainofInfluence!WilliamWordsworth,aRomanticpoetJackKerouacBobDylanTheBeatsw
3、erepartofa“countercultural”movement.ThismeansthatthemembersoftheBeatGenerationsharedideasandvaluesthatdidnotcoincidewithmainstreamsocialvalues.EarliercounterculturessuchastheEuropeanRomanticsandBohemiansinfluencedtheBeatGeneration,justastheBeatswouldinfluencetheHippiesintheUnitedStates.Th
4、eBeatGeneration:When?TheNewYorkBeatsmetandwrotetheirmostproductiveworkinthelate1940sand1950s.Theywererespondingtoanumberofculturaleventsandattitudes,themostnotablebeingWorldWarII,andtheultra-conservativemiddleclass.1950sNYCNuclearFamily1950sTechnology!TheBeatGeneration:Who?Picturedfromlef
5、ttorightisLucienCarr,JackKerouac,AllenGinsberg,andWilliamBurroughs.Kerouac,Ginsberg,andBurroughsaretheprincipalliteraryfiguresoftheNewYorkBeatMovement.TheBeatGeneration:Where?GreenwichVillage,NYCThefoundingmembersoftheBeatGenerationmetinNewYorkCity.KerouacandGinsbergbothattendedColumbiaUn
6、iversityinNewYork,andBurroughs(theeldestofthethree)wasaHarvardgraduate.MEMBERSTheoriginal"BeatGeneration"writersmetinNewYork:JackKerouac,AllenGinsberg,WilliamS.Burroughs,(in1948)andlater(in1950)GregoryCorso(theyaresometimescalledthe"NewYorkBeats"thoughonlyCorsowasfromNewYork).Beat,What?!?
7、Beingtired,“downandout”,oreventemporarilydefeatedUponfurtherexamination,JackKerouac(theunofficialspokesmanoftheBeats)addedothersometimesparadoxicalorironicmeanings:Amusicalconnotation:asinbeing“onthebeat”.TheBeatGenerationwasinfluencedheavilybythepopularmusicoftheti
