World Beats

2016-04-05
World Beats

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  • Author: Jimmy Fazzino
  • Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
  • ISBN: 1611689473
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best na•ve tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin - World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature. This book presents an original treatment that will attract a broad spectrum of scholars.

Kid Blink Beats the World

2004-09-14
Kid Blink Beats the World

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  • Author: Don Brown
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781596430037
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 42

The story of the newsboys (and girls) who took on the world's most powerful press barons--and won--in the summer of 1899 is told in this fascinating picture book. Full color.

The Beats

2021-03-11
The Beats

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  • Author: Nancy Grace
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • ISBN: 1949979962
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

'[This] survey of the many little magazines carrying the Beat message is impressive in its coverage, drawing attention to the importance of their paratextual content in providing valuable socio-political context. [...] The collection contains a range of insightful close readings, astute contextualizing, and inventive lateral pedagogical thinking, charting the transformation of the Beat scene from its free-wheeling, self-help, heady revolutionary 1960’s days to its contemporary position as an increasingly respectable component of the curriculum. [...] The Beats: A Teaching Companion is successful on a number of levels; it is a noteworthy contribution to the ever expanding field of Beat studies and, more broadly, cultural studies; and it is a collection that at its best gives hope that in referring to its ideas the inspired teacher may still be able to enlarge the lives of their students.' John Shapcott, Keele University

Reiki Systems of the World

2006
Reiki Systems of the World

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  • Author: Oliver Klatt
  • Publisher: Lotus Press
  • ISBN: 0914955799
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

This book provides an overview of the development of the Reiki system of healing and the path it has taken in the course of its dissemination and continuous development. An authentic work, the book is woven together through personal encounters and mutual experiences with the leading Reiki Masters of the world.

The Beats in Mexico

2022-04-15
The Beats in Mexico

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  • Author: David Stephen Calonne
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 1978828721
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 291

The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its landscape, history, and mystical practices in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti, as well as lesser-known female Beat writers like Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger.

The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats

2017-08-17
The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats

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  • Author: David Stephen Calonne
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108416454
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 245

The first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of major Beat authors.

Dead Beats

2019-10-29
Dead Beats

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  • Author: Rachel Pollack
  • Publisher: Wave Blue World Incorporated
  • ISBN: 9781949518030
  • Category : Record stores
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

DEAD BEATS is a 168-page anthology of music-themed horror comics stories, ranging in tone from grim to darkly comic but all centering around the curiosities for sale at one peculiar record store. Best described as Tales from the Crypt meets High Fidelity, DEAD BEATS will appeal to fans of classic comics horror anthologies like Vault of Horror, Creepy, and Eerie, and of more modern fare like Flinch. Edited by Eric Palicki (All We Ever Wanted) and Joe Corallo (Ringo Award-winning editor of Mine!), DEAD BEATS features all-new original stories by Magdalene Visaggio (GLAAD award nominee for Kim & Kim, Eisner award nominee for Eternity Girl), Rachel Pollack (Doom Patrol, Arthur C. Clarke award winning novelist of Unquenchable Fire) and Richard Case (Doom Patrol, The Sandman), Vita Ayala (Livewire, James Bond), Daniel Kibblesmith (Santa's Husband, writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), Ivy Noelle and Steenz (Dwayne McDuffie award-winning creators of Archival Quality), Tony Patrick (Batman and The Signal), Kwanza Osajyefo (Black, Ignited), Sweeney Boo (Eat and Love Yourself, Captain Marvel), Tres Dean (For Your Consideration: Dwayne the Rock), Nadia Shammas (Squire, Care Bears) and many other new and veteran creators.

The Cambridge Companion to the Beats

2017-02-06
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats

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  • Author: Steven Belletto
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316885623
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 333

The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a profound effect not only on the direction of American literature, but also on models of socio-political critique that would become more widespread in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together the most influential Beat scholars writing today, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the Beat movement, asking critical questions about its associated figures and arguing for their importance to postwar American letters.

Nothing Beats Luck

2021-01-14
Nothing Beats Luck

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  • Author: Harry Brooks
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 1664150560
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 349

Nothing Beats Luck takes the reader on a journey from the financial district of New York to the corrupt, mafia-infested city of Chicago and then finally to Las Vegas. You will meet all types of colorful characters, some who totally believe in luck, and then some like BJ, who has made a fortune on both Wall Street and in sports-betting, who does not believe in luck. Nothing Beats Luck is a story about people and their hopes and dreams as much as it is about Las Vegas and organized crime. Endorsements: “Brooks has done it again. He is able to develop colorful fictional characters, while at the same time never losing his sense of humor” Sam McKeel, former Chairman and Publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News, and former President, CEO, & Publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times “Brooks has the uncanny ability to weave his Philadelphia experiences of real people, places, and events into an exciting tale of fiction” Judge Lisle B. Tinkler, Retired.

My Heart Beats

2021-04-13
My Heart Beats

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  • Author: Rina Singh
  • Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
  • ISBN: 1459825705
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 25

A beautiful photographic board book featuring babies from all over the world and the sounds their hearts make as they beat with love. No matter what language we speak, no matter where we live in the world, our hearts beat with the same rhythm. We may hear and say the sounds differently—doki doki in Japanese, tu tump tu tump in Italian, dugeun dugeun in Korean, dhak dhak in Urdu, boum boum in French and thump thump in English—but when our hearts beat, all the sounds mean the same thing: you are alive and you are loved.