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- Title
Journal as Genre and Published Text: Beat Avant-Garde Writing Practices.
- Authors
Falk, Jane E.
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented which discusses some issues related to the avant-garde writing and publication of journals. Recent texts on self-actualization, creativity, and writing describe how keeping a journal can improve one's life and one's ability to write. In the 1950s and 1960s, the primarily male writers associated with the Beat avant-garde were also journal keepers and notebook carriers and were even publicly associated with the practice. The innovations that these journal entries suggested to James Laughlin, publisher and editor at New Directions, are an important aspect of their publication history.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL literature; PERIODICAL publishing; AVANT-garde (Arts); SERIAL publications; HISTORY; DIARY (Literary form); LAUGHLIN, James, 1914-1997; JOURNALISTS
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2004, Vol 73, Issue 4, p991
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3138/utq.73.4.991