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

B 2018

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

ZITA, Antonín

Basic information

Original name

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

Name in Czech

Jak rozumíme beatníkům. Recepce Beat Generation ve Spojených státech a v Česku

Authors

ZITA, Antonín (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Vydání první. Brno, Česká republika, 202 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity; 482, 2018

Publisher

Masarykova univerzita

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

Web edice Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00104855

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-210-9048-4

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9049-2018

Keywords (in Czech)

Recepce; komparatistika; stereotypy; Beat Generation; beatníci; socialstický realismus; cenzura

Keywords in English

reception; comparative literature; stereotypes; Beat Generation; beatniks; socialist realism; censorship

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Acronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

ZITA, Antonín. How We Understand the Beats : The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands. Vydání první. Brno, Česká republika: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 202 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity; 482. ISBN 978-80-210-9048-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9049-2018.

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ZITA, Antonín. \textit{How We Understand the Beats : The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands}. Vydání první. Brno, Česká republika: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 202 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity; 482. ISBN~978-80-210-9048-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9049-2018.

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