The paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg: from self-destruction to self-liberation
"More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence stage...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned, primarily, by a trope of nullification that acts as a menace for the self. This tropism for destruction and death is not only emblematic of their works, it is also used as a literary strategy that seeks to conquer the fear of self-annihilation through the writing itself. It is precisely this interplay - approached through an Existentialism that simultaneously converges upon the Transcendentalist legacy of Beat writing - which probes the paradoxical dimension of the texts, enabling the mythological figure of Thanatos to take centre stage. The critical synergy of the book, brought about by relating American literature and culture to European thought, enables in-depth analyses of a selection of novels and poems, grasped through their aesthetic, ontological and historical dimensions. Shedding new light on the literary strategies of two widely misunderstood American writers of the twentieth century, this captivating study into the drives for self-destruction and self-liberation encapsulated by Kerouac and Ginsberg sets out to reinvent the well-worn definition of 'Beat' through its original approach - an essential critical piece for all those interested in the American counterculture"-- |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 178 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781433189074 |
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| adam_text | Contents PART I 1 2 Foreword Introduction: The Quest for Thanatos vii 1 Lapsing into Alienation: Strategies for Self-Destruction 17 The Transcendental Ontology of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg The Pursuit of Transcendence From the Vision to the Visionary Embodying the Essence of Nature: Toward a Transcendental Ontology Existential Authenticity and the Menace of Alienation The Mirror on the Road: Kerouac’s Vision of Anguish The Vision of Anguish Big Sur and the Loss of the Visionary Echoes from Walden “The Vulcan’s Forge Itself’: The Fall into the Absurd 19 19 23 27 30 37 38 42 46 49
vi I Contents 3 The Pith of Existential Nothingness: Ginsberg’s Moloch “The Best Minds of my Generation” vs. Moloch The Cultural Predicament of Modern America The Consciousness of Death The Urizenic Mind 61 62 65 68 71 PART II Toward Self-Liberation: Engagement, Movement, Disengagement 4 5 6 Existential and Transcendental Forms of Engagement in Ginsberg’s “Howl” An Epic Form of Commitment The “Footnote to ‘Howl’ Pantheism, Immanence, and the Intuition Fulfilling the Idea within the Self: Intuitive Performativity in “Howl” The Phenomenological Poetics of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg “Coming from within, out” As Existence Precedes Essence, Form Precedes Content “A Sense of Dooming Boom”: The Dionysian Impulse of Thanatos Streaming Live from the Transcendent: Ginsberg’s Poetics of Transcendental Performativity From the Poetical to the Political: Toward the Collective Vision 79 81 82 88 92 101 101 105 109 112 118 Kerouac’s Solipsistic Revolt: The Strategy of Disengagement Disengagement and the Search for Authenticity The Revolt: Camus, Thoreau, Kerouac A Retreat into the Self The Sacrificial Vision 127 128 132 136 141 Conclusion: The Paradox of Thanatos Index 151 163
More often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence staged by Kerouac and by Ginsberg is underpinned, primarily, by a trope of nullification that acts as a menace for the self. This tropism for destruction and death is not only emblematic of their works, it is also used as a literary strategy that seeks to conquer the fear of self-annihilation through the writing itself. It is precisely this interplay—approached through an Existentialism that simultaneously converges upon the Transcendentalist legacy of Beat writing—which probes the paradoxical dimension of the texts, enabling the mythological figure of Thanatos to take centre stage. The critical synergy of the book, brought about by relating American literature and culture to European thought, enables in-depth analyses of a selection of novels and poems, grasped through their aesthetic, ontological and historical dimensions. Shedding new light on the literary strategies of two widely misunderstood American writers of the twentieth century, this captivating study into the drives for self-destruction and self-liberation encapsulated by Kerouac and Ginsberg sets out to reinvent the well-worn definition of ‘Beat’ through its original approach—an essential critical piece for all those interested in the American counterculture.
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Contents PART I 1 2 Foreword Introduction: The Quest for Thanatos vii 1 Lapsing into Alienation: Strategies for Self-Destruction 17 The Transcendental Ontology of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg The Pursuit of Transcendence From the Vision to the Visionary Embodying the Essence of Nature: Toward a Transcendental Ontology Existential Authenticity and the Menace of Alienation The Mirror on the Road: Kerouac’s Vision of Anguish The Vision of Anguish Big Sur and the Loss of the Visionary Echoes from Walden “The Vulcan’s Forge Itself’: The Fall into the Absurd 19 19 23 27 30 37 38 42 46 49
vi I Contents 3 The Pith of Existential Nothingness: Ginsberg’s Moloch “The Best Minds of my Generation” vs. Moloch The Cultural Predicament of Modern America The Consciousness of Death The Urizenic Mind 61 62 65 68 71 PART II Toward Self-Liberation: Engagement, Movement, Disengagement 4 5 6 Existential and Transcendental Forms of Engagement in Ginsberg’s “Howl” An Epic Form of Commitment The “Footnote to ‘Howl’ Pantheism, Immanence, and the Intuition Fulfilling the Idea within the Self: Intuitive Performativity in “Howl” The Phenomenological Poetics of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg “Coming from within, out” As Existence Precedes Essence, Form Precedes Content “A Sense of Dooming Boom”: The Dionysian Impulse of Thanatos Streaming Live from the Transcendent: Ginsberg’s Poetics of Transcendental Performativity From the Poetical to the Political: Toward the Collective Vision 79 81 82 88 92 101 101 105 109 112 118 Kerouac’s Solipsistic Revolt: The Strategy of Disengagement Disengagement and the Search for Authenticity The Revolt: Camus, Thoreau, Kerouac A Retreat into the Self The Sacrificial Vision 127 128 132 136 141 Conclusion: The Paradox of Thanatos Index 151 163
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| title_exact_search_txtP | The paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg from self-destruction to self-liberation |
| title_full | The paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg from self-destruction to self-liberation Tanguy Harma |
| title_fullStr | The paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg from self-destruction to self-liberation Tanguy Harma |
| title_full_unstemmed | The paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg from self-destruction to self-liberation Tanguy Harma |
| title_short | The paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg |
| title_sort | the paradox of thanatos jack kerouac allen ginsberg from self destruction to self liberation |
| title_sub | from self-destruction to self-liberation |
| topic | Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 (DE-588)11853940X gnd Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 (DE-588)118561561 gnd |
| topic_facet | Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 |
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