Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem / John Tytell.
| Author/creator | Tytell, John |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014. |
| Description | ix, 237 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Engagement. How to write an essay -- The writer as peeping John: on the nature of biographical inquiry -- Hemlock or ambrosia: writing and editorial process -- Notes of a peripatetic lecturer -- Senator tripletalk and the American dream -- Passing through: fifty years @ mind factory -- Reconsidering the beats -- The traveling writer: Beat Mexico -- Kerouac's music -- Ginsberg today -- The oppositional writer: Ed Sanders -- The editor as midwife: writers and little magazines -- The metaphysics of writing. Bombing with words -- A writer's retreat -- Poetic faith: religion and the writer -- A writer's passage -- The donkey and the written word. |
| Abstract | "This hybrid memoir of sixteen interconnected essays attempts to reconsider the Beats and to focus as well on the process of writing non-fiction and biography"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014008056 |
| ISBN | 9780826520142 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780826520159 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |