How We Understand the Beats. The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands

ZITA, Antonín. How We Understand the Beats. The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, č. 482. ISBN 978-80-210-9048-4. 2018.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: How We Understand the Beats. The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands
• Název česky: Jak rozumíme beatníkům. Recepce Beat Generation ve Spojených státech a v Česku
• Název anglicky: How We Understand the Beats. The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands
• Autoři: ZITA, Antonín.
• Vydání: 1. vyd. Brno, Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, č. 482, 2018.
• Nakladatel: Masarykova univerzita

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: čeština
• Typ výsledku: Odborná kniha
• Stát vydavatele: Česká republika
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• Forma vydání: tištěná verze "print"
• ISBN: 978-80-210-9048-4
• Štítky: Munipress

Anotace

The book compares the reception of the Beat Generation authors in the United States and the Czech lands in two different time periods: in the 1950s and 1960s of the 20th century and then from 1990s until today. While the works of the Beat Generation authors remained the same, the contexts of the Beat publications could not have been more different: American critics frequently reduced the works of the Beats to a juvenile promotion of sex, drugs, and even violence; for Czechoslovak readers, the works of the Beats sharply contrasted with the official literature which followed the doctrine of socialist realism. Therefore, this study comments on how different contexts shape the readers’ approaches to a literary text and their author, which then in turn help transform said text into a different work of art.

Anotace anglicky

The book compares the reception of the Beat Generation authors in the United States and the Czech lands in two different time periods: in the 1950s and 1960s of the 20th century and then from 1990s until today. While the works of the Beat Generation authors remained the same, the contexts of the Beat publications could not have been more different: American critics frequently reduced the works of the Beats to a juvenile promotion of sex, drugs, and even violence; for Czechoslovak readers, the works of the Beats sharply contrasted with the official literature which followed the doctrine of socialist realism. Therefore, this study comments on how different contexts shape the readers’ approaches to a literary text and their author, which then in turn help transform said text into a different work of art.