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The Beat Generation (EKSAMEN)
I dette forløb har vi arbejdet med Beatgenerationen som litterær strømning og bevægelse. Vi har fokuseret på de mest fremtrædende forfattere herunder Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso og Jack Kerouac samt Neal Cassady, som kom til gruppen senere og blev et ikon for generationen. Beatforfatterne gjorde oprør mod det etablerede amerikanske samfund og blev efterkrigstidens anti-autoritære, som i dag kan ses som forløbere til ungdomsoprøret i 1960’ernes USA. I forløbet er eleverne blevet indført i Beatgenerationen som kulturfænomen, Beatgenerationens litterære metoder. Derudover er eleverne også blevet sat ind i McCarthyismens kommunistforskrækkelse og den amerikanske middelklasses rigide værdinormer, som generationen stod i stærk kontrast til.
Kernestof
Howl (Part 1, 2 and 3 and footnote to Howl, Allen Ginsberg, (1956)
America, Allen Ginsberg, (1956)
A supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg (1956)
Marriage, Gregory Corso, (1974)
The American Way, Gregory Corso (1961)
Chapter 1 and 3, Jack Kerouac, (1957)
Howl, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman (2010)
Howl and beyond, The Obscenity Trial, Barry Raphael, (2003)
The Beat Generation, the Marginal Social Group of the Post
WWII American Literature:
https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JLLL/article/viewFile/25878/26303
(Introduction, The Beat Generation as a Sub-culture, Sex, Drugs, and Crime, critical approach of the Beat Generation, The Cultural Aspects of the Post-World War II America, The Political Aspects, The Social Aspects,, The Literary Aspects (p.1-8)
Background indformation on the Beat Generation, udarbejdet af Sima p.1-49 - herunder med fokus på: Movement, Post-War America, Middle Class Non-Identity, Consumption and conformity, Artificial vs Authentic, Writing and approach, Literary characteristics, Influence, Literary themes, McCarthyism and Public regard.
Supplerende stof:
The Beat Generation, Literary periods, (2011)
Elevoplæg med udgangspunkt i følgende opgave: task is to research the Beat poets and find out when, why, where, and how they created an entire literary movement and way of thinking.
Each group will conduct biographical research on one of the Beat poets named below. Your individual poet research should include information about and presented in a Power Point or Prezi:
• The poet’s background: birthplace, education, significant life events
• The “story” behind the poet’s writing
• The poet’s style: Explain why she / he used poetry as her/ his form of expression?
• Significant works: What are your poet’s most famous poems? The themes that they addressed? Why are these so well known? What was their literary impact? (What is your favorite poem? Note! This one is optional)
1) Allen Ginsberg
2) Gary Snyder
3) Neal Leon Cassady and Carl Solomon
4) Jack Kerouac
5) Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Lucien Carr
6) Gregory Corso
7) William S. Burroughs
8) Diane di Prima
9) Anne Waldman
10) Elise Cowen
Kreativ opgave:
Hit the Road, Jack!
Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road you should document your own road trip using alter egos as Jack Kerouac did with for instance Sal Paradise. Your documentation should include video recordings with a voice over written in stream of consciousness. Choose one destination (The Promised Land) and use a map to plan your route. Your route must include a minimum of three stops before your ultimate destination. You will carry out this assignment Friday 13 starting from your lunch break. Remember that Kerouac wrote On the Road within 3 weeks, so you should have plenty of time.
Rules
Before your road trip:
Find your destination. Create alter-egos (a person's secondary or alternative personality.)
While on the road:
Document Document Document!
Describe what you see, feel and smell. Use sensory language.
Talk to strangers (in English)
Hitch-hike if possible
Enjoy a meal (You are not allowed to bring food from home)
Your budget on the road: 20 kr (If you need more money find a way – just not anything criminal)
Use real maps – no GPS or google maps!
Leave your rejsekort at home!
Don’t phone home!
Be safe
(Omfang ca. 65 sider)
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