AML 2560 - The Beat Generation

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St. Francis College

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Description:

This course studies the poetry and fiction of the Beat Generation. Rejecting the culturally conservative mood of America in the 1950s, the beat movement expressed a literature of raw intensity which tested the boundaries of creative freedom. This was a generation of artists who rebelled against received forms and opened literature to a range of experiences repressed as marginal or dangerous: madness, ecstasy, addiction, homosexuality, suicide, and religious dread. Writers may include Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Kesey, Burroughs, DiPrima, Snyder, Bukowski, McClure, Waldman, and Cassady. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2007.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.sfc.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 522-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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