TY - BOOK ID - 77879102 TI - The daybreak boys : essays on the literature of the beat generation PY - 2009 SN - 1280697547 9786613674500 080938647X 1441645969 9781441645968 0809329492 9780809329496 9780809386475 0809329492 9780809329496 9780809386475 9781280697548 0809315645 PB - Carbondale, ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Beat generation. KW - American literature KW - Beat generation KW - Beatniks KW - Persons KW - Bohemianism KW - History and criticism. KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Beats (Persons). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77879102 AB - In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature-the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels through Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, following Kerouac's quests for identity, community, and spiritual knowledge. He examines Allen Ginsberg's use of transcendence in "Howl," discovers the Gnostic vision in William S. Burroughs's fiction, and studies the mythic, visionary power of Lawrence F ER -