ENG 6790 Beat Generation

This course concentrates on the poetry and prose of the Beat Generation with special attention paid to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs, and including Diane DiPrima, Amiri Baraka, and Bob Kaufman. Consideration will be paid as well to other alternative schools of American poetry of the fifties and sixties with which Beat literature shared aesthetic and social concerns–The Black Mountain School, The New York School, and The San Francisco Renaissance.
Credits: 3.0