The Trickster in Ginsberg : A Critical Reading

Mead-Brewer, Katherine Campbell

McFarland & Co Inc（2013/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786464692
• DDC分類 811.54

Full Description

This scholarly close reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" considers the iconic poem through a four-part trickster framework: appetite, boundlessness, transformative power and a proclivity for setting and falling victim to tricks and traps. The book pursues various different narratives of the trickster Coyote and the historical and biographical contexts of "Howl" from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.

This study seeks to contribute to the current literature on the poetry of the Beats and of Allen Ginsberg, specifically his "Howl," and the ways it continues to expand in meaning, depth and significance today.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part I : Allen Ginsberg and the Trickster

1. I Am Large. I Contain Multitudes.

2. Considering Coyote

Part II : Coyote-ing "Howl"

3. Space, Place, and Traversing Boundaries

4. "Howl's" Appetite

5. A Trick and a Trap

6. Smearing Borderlines

7. Transformation: Madman Bum and Angel

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index