Amcult 208 1st Edition Lecture 11Outline of Last Lecture I. HowlOutline of Current Lecture II. Beats Become Icons, and Then SomeIII. 7 Characteristics of sub/counterculture behaviorIV. HowlCurrent LectureExam:- 7 Characteristics of sub/counterculture behavior- Antinomian PersonalityNew York Book Review: The NY Times Book Review began to pay attention to what was happening in the literary world with an article on the San Francisco Scene- Can describe or prescribe for the cultureTribal Elders: Kenneth Rexroth- Helped found the San Francisco Poetry Center, from Indiana- Became involved with the Beat movement attempting to elevate common consciousnesso He was given the title “Godfather of the Beats” because of his involvement with the readings and events at the Cellar Jazz Club- Kenneth Patcheno Read Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, Burns, Melville at age 12- Robinson Jefferso Combined themes from ancient tragedies and religious stories with dark views and absurdities of modern lifeo Called for a poetry of ‘dangerous images’ that would reclaim substance and sense,and psychological reality’ Believed that ‘poetry is bound to concern itself chiefly with permanent aspects of life’o We are not going to get understanding from politicians, religious leaders, where isit going to come from? Art.These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. It’s the only place we are asking questions and getting answers that aren’t bullshit.o ‘I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason for fire and change and torture and old returns’Howl Trial 1957Decided: - Howl had redeeming value, Section I presents a picture of a nightmare world, Section 2 isan indictment of the things that make it a nightmare world: materialism, conformity, and mechanization leading to war, Section 3 represents the way this impacts an individual, Section 4 is a plea for holy living- It was defended by ACLU for being obscene.The Beat authors were developing several different styles- Burroughs’ ‘factualism’o “all arguments, all nonsensical condemnation as to what people ‘should do’ are irrelevant’o “ultimately there is only fact on all levels, and the more one argues, verbalizes, moralizes, the less he will, and feel of fact… talk is incompatible with factualism”o He was the most experimental of the Beat writers He would cut-up tax and then rearrange the pieces to create meaning  Violated normal syntax that influences rational behaviorSpontaneous Jack- Kerouac was a chronicler, and his subject was Americao He claimed to be: ‘uninterested in literary perfection’, ‘uninterested in a fictitious order that had little relation to the flux of reality’- He was interested in the ecstatic releaseo Spontaneous prose, usurped normal consciousness, unfiltered Writing as Orgasm: in some ways this may seem, to the sophomoric elements, as a rather over the top and perhaps prurient notion… very rooted in Buddhism- One of the goals is to overcome desire. The best way to achieve this goal, and to work towards enlightenment, may be to experience desire “fully and thereby drain it of every mystery”- Talons of your ego’s eagle, demanding moreUndifferentiated Allen: looked at his work as being an expression of “undifferentiated consciousness”- For Allen, writing was about universal grief and the superhuman, existing outside of space and time.- He sought to purge language of stultifying formalismsWe make art to project our own reality on the world, to uncover your own truth- We make art because we are scared shitless of dying. We are the only creatures on earth that are aware upon birth that we will die one dayo “you cant forget me fuckers” “I was here” I’m leaving something